Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Through all these tests this year, 26 cases were tested positive, but not all of them were found during the National Games.