Thomas Huxley Quotes

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.

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

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

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.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

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

Science is facts.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

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

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