Bill Foster Quotes

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

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

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.

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 is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is what scientists do.

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.

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

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, 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.

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

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.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

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.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

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

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.