Determinism Quote by Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions.

— Claude Bernard

“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is…

— John Horgan

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

— Max Planck

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

— Arthur Eddington

The only rule of science is that it has no rule.

— Vikrant Parsai

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right…

— Bertrand Russell

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

“The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

— Joan Robinson

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is…

— John B. S. Haldane

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a…

— Stephen Hawking