Children Quote by Alison Gopnik

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very…

— David Cronenberg

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their…

— Ruth Hubbard

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it…

— Alison Gopnik

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might…

— Mae Jemison

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is what scientists do.

— Dennis Flanagan

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are…

— Sean M. Carroll

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

— John Medina

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it.…

— George Wald

“Children discover and verify their theories in quite the same way that scientists do: through experimentation. They manipulate the world and discover regularities of…

— Matthew M. Hurley Daniel C. Dennet Reginald B. Adams

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

— Marvin Minsky