Harry Kroto Quotes

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

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

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

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.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

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

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

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

The bedrock of science is the unwillingness to accept authority.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

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

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.

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