# Quote — Greg Craven, What's the Worst That Could Happen?

> My students have described this process of testing ideas in science as: “Hit it with a sledgehammer and see if it breaks. Whatever survives is the best we've got." Science is a very adversarial activity! Hence the old adage among physicists: Physics is a contact sport.

- Author: [Greg Craven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven.md)
- Book: [What's the Worst That Could Happen?](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen.md)
- Page: 43
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Craven#What's_the_Worst_That_Could_Happen%3F:_A_Rational_Response_to_the_Climate_Change_Debate_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/my-students-have

## More from this book

> New breakthrough technologies can make it easier, but we've already got, right now, everything we need to accomplish the task of transforming our energy economy away from fossil fuels. Except the willingness.

p. 218 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/new-breakthrough-technologies.md)

> Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/try-to-keep.md)

> The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/the-clever-part.md)