Quotes About Facts

History is a science, no more and no less.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

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.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Science is the search for truth.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Different 'philosophies' represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.