Science Quotes

"Epistemology must be naturalized, but naturalism itself requires critical scrutiny."

"Scientific progress consists in moving toward a unified, systematic description."

"Explanation proceeds by subsuming particulars under universals."

"Scientific laws express regularities in the order of nature."

"The empirical observation is already laden with theory."

"The aim of science is not certainty but systematic, coherent understanding."

"All explanation involves placing facts in a rational system."

"Every scientific claim is revisable in light of evidence and argument."

"Scientific progress is not the accumulation of facts but the refinement of frameworks."

"Scientific understanding requires both empirical evidence and rational systematization."

"Science is a body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon the assumption that all natural phenomena follow natural laws."

"A theory is a well-substantiated explanation of natural phenomena, supported by vast amounts of evidence."

"Explanation requires reference to laws of nature."

"Empirical evidence is the foundation of scientific knowledge."

"Explanation and prediction are logically parallel in structure."

"The unity of science suggests common methodological principles across disciplines."

"A good explanation must be testable."

"Probabilistic explanation is explanation nonetheless."

"Initial conditions matter as much as laws in explanation."

"Explanatory depth increases with connection to fundamental laws."

"Explanation requires more than mere correlation."

"Laws of nature are discovered, not invented."

"Explanation connects the explicandum to the explicans."

"Nature's complexity demands increasingly sophisticated explanation."

"Laws explain through subsumption of particulars."

"Science seeks universal principles underlying particular phenomena."

"Explanation requires identifying governing principles."

"Explanation connects events to their causes."

"Laws explain why patterns persist."

"Science uncovers nature's rational structure."