Science - Quotes
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
Truth, in science, can be defined as the working hypothesis best fitted to open the way to the next better one.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. ?
We all have a thirst for wonder. It`s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I`m saying is, you don`t have to make stories up, you don`t have to exaggerate. There`s wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature`s a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ?
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.