Donald Norman Quotes

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

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

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

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

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Question everything!

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.

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.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

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

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

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

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

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Science is always inquiring.