Priyamvada Natarajan Quotes

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

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

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

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

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

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

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

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.

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

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

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.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

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

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