Siri Hustvedt Quotes

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

The heart of science is measurement.

Experience by itself is not science.

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.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Science has been a discipline in which testability, rather than any ecclesiastical authority or philosophical coherence, has been the measure of a scientific idea’s worth

If we are ever to discover the laws of nature, we must do so by obtaining the most accurate acquaintance with the facts of nature, and not by dressing up in philosophical language the loose opinions of men who had no knowledge of the facts

Scientific method isn't about winning popularity contests. It's also not about being with the majority opinion. It isn't supposed be determined by politics. It is about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Observations always involve theory.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.

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