Kary Mullis Quotes

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

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

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

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

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

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

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

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

The bedrock of science is the unwillingness to accept authority.

The common aim of all science is the gradual removal of prejudice.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.