If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true.” — Jim Haines Copy Share Image
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an apple, that you can devour in a few bites - truth is an onion, peel off one layer,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that. — David Barton Copy Share Image
“Network analysis is a relatively recent scientific method for describing and analyzing a web of links among entities, including people.” — Derek Hansen Copy Share Image
And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific… — David Barton Copy Share Image
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then again, it'd taken more than two hundred years after the invention of the scientific method before any Muggle scientists had thought… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other… — Karl Barry Sharpless Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“That position comes down to this. The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical… — Jeffrey J. Kripal Copy Share Image
“When contemplating humanity’s potential future technologies and their use and effect on our world, we should bear in mind that the coming… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
“He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I love this crazy scientific method called asking. It helps me to justify my assumptions. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image