Quotes in science

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

In God we trust, all others must bring data.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Science is all metaphor.