Quotes About Interpretation

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 must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.