Educated guesswork’ is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you’ve got close to the truth.
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
The resistance to science is idiotic.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting.
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
