Hippocrates Quotes

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

I always believe in facts.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'd as constituting the theory of chemistry.

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

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