Frank H. Easterbrook Quotes

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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

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

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Science thrives on self-correction …. refutation almost always contains positive lessons that overwhelm disappointment.

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

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.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

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

Scientists are always skeptics.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.