Ernst Mach Quotes

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

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.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

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

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

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.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is what scientists do.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

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

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Science is nothing but perception.

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

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

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.

If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.