Explanation Quote by Fred Hoyle Download Open image “Science is prediction, not explanation.” — Fred Hoyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Inspirational Predictions Science
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.” — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh,… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating,… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.” — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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