Warren Weaver Quotes

Science is facts.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Science is always inquiring.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science is about filling in the details.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

Science is about questioning things.

Science is a quest for understanding.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.