Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Go with the science!.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

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

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

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.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.