Explanation Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

— Peter Medawar

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume…

— David Attenborough

“...supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that’s the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in…

— Peter Medawar

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

— Ben Stein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

— Richard P. Feynman

There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other scientific disciplines,…

— Matthew Chapman

Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth…

— Ernst Mach

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

— Max Weber

I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken,…

— George Coyne