Sam Harris 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.

Everything that people say is testable.

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

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

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 means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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

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.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

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

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

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.

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

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 consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

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

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

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

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

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.