Ann Coulter Quotes

I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

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

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

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.

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

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

We are fighting a deadly disease. We are not fighting the people who have that disease. Homosexuality does not produce AIDS.

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

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.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

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

It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Science does not permit exceptions.

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