Certainty Quote by Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

— Lisa Randall

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

“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.”

— Alessandro Volta

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible…

— Richard P. Feynman

“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of…

— Gene Wolfe

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of…

— Ashley Montagu

“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when the evidence…

— Mary Lefkowitz

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon