Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

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

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

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Experience by itself is not science.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

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

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

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

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.

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.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

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