Disaster Quote by Francis Collins

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

“Failures are inevitable when you experiment, but it is a trial-and-error process that gives results.”

— Haresh Sippy

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they…

— Robert Pozen

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are…

— Lisa Randall

It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no longer needed.…

— Francis Collins

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of…

— Humphry Davy

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science,…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

“The ecosystem in which academic scientists work has created conditions that actually set them up for failure. There’s a constant scramble for research dollars.…

— Richard F. Harris

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid…

— Tom Peters

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

— Richard P. Feynman