Agents Quote by Humphry Davy

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows…

— Bertrand Russell

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

— Marie Curie

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

— Henri Poincare

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

“Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the rigorous quality of its assumptions. But experimental science wins these admirable qualities at the cost…

— José Ortega y Gasset

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views…

— Lisa Randall

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

— Claude Bernard

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey…

— Lisa Randall

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever…

— Charles Pierce

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

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

— Peter Watts