Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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.

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

I am very pro-science.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

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.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

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.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

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

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.