Auguste Comte Quotes

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.