Jonathan Miller Quotes

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 means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

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

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

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

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Science is what scientists do.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

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.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.