Demetri Martin Quotes

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

If it turns out that we're doing proper science from time to time, it just happens to be that that's the most efficient way of doing it. We go into each of these stories with an open mind, and one of the great things about how the show works is that we're not approaching it from a doctoral point of view, we're just trying to see what happens.

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.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

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

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

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

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.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

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.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

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.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

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

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

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.

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