Alive Quote by Emanuel Lasker

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

— Celia Green

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get…

— Aubrey de Grey

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.

— Michael J. Silverstein

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough…

— Antoine Lavoisier

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

— Robert MacArthur

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have…

— Dennis C. Blair

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

— Paul Feyerabend

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

— William Zinsser

“problem-solving that relies on pattern-finding is of no use at all. If we look at the Challenger space shuttle catastrophe, there weren’t any patterns…

— Nat Greene

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel