Dick Cavett Quotes

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

The heart of science is measurement.

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

I think I was a born scientist.

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.

If we are ever to discover the laws of nature, we must do so by obtaining the most accurate acquaintance with the facts of nature, and not by dressing up in philosophical language the loose opinions of men who had no knowledge of the facts

The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

Science demands patience.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.