Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

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

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

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.

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

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.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

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

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

It is not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.

Go with the science!.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.