Accuracy Quote by Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we…

— Georges Lemaitre

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than…

— Anaxagoras

“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of…

— Gene Wolfe

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are…

— Werner Heisenberg

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that…

— Bertrand Russell

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the…

— Nassau William Senior

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

— Ernst Mayr

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying…

— Richard P. Feynman

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory…

— Francois Jacob