Claims Quote by George Coyne

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is…

— Bram Stoker

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

— Andrew Solomon

Science is prediction, not explanation.

— Fred Hoyle

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some…

— George Coyne

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

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

— Bill Gaede

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories…

— Marvin Harris

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

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