Quotes About Verification

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Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.

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Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

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

By far the best proof is experience.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.