Dennis Flanagan Quotes

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

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

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

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

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

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

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

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.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

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

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.