Sean Carroll Quotes

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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

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.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

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

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

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.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

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

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

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

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.