Aubrey de Grey Quotes

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

… scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

It is not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

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.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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.

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

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.