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Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

— Paul Kalanithi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

— Luther Burbank

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

— Dean Ornish

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

— Brian Schmidt

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

— Walter Lang

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

— Seth Lloyd

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

— Linus Pauling

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

— Brian Greene

✗Opposing Perspectives

Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant - that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity.

— Harry Kroto

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson