John Bates Clark Quotes

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

I love doing research.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

If you judge, investigate.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.