Active Quote by Francis Bacon

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems…

— Francis Bacon

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without…

— Jose Padilha

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all of these…

— Christian Doppler

It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper