Circumstances Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but…

— Paul Feyerabend

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

— Karl Popper

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all…

— Edsger Dijkstra

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

— Richard P. Feynman

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hofmann

The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

— William James

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not…

— Richard P. Feynman

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

“Solving problems isn't so much about simplifying them as it is about properly and realistically reducing them to only what's relevant. And one of…

— Christian Cantrell