Walter Lang Quotes

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

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

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

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.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

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.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

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.

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

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.