Barbara Kingsolver 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.

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.

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

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

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.

It is not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

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

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

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.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.