David Douglass Quotes

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

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.

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

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.

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

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

Today's truth is tomorrow's null hypothesis-and next years's error.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

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

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

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

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

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

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

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

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

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

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

… 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.