Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

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

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

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

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

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

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science is not gadgetry.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

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.

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

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

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.

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