Bases Quote by Walter A. Shewhart

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements…

— Rudolf Carnap

“If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is different from…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be…

— John Stuart Mill

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which…

— A.J. Ayer

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that…

— Bertrand Russell

“That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true.”

— Jim Haines

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted,…

— Walter Lang

If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful…

— John Lancaster Spalding