John E. Jones III Quotes

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

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

Experience by itself is not science.

It is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.

Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myth.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

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

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

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

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

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

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.