“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.” — Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying Copy Share Image
Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the… — Vincenzo Galilei Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“This story takes place a half a billion years ago-an inconceivably long time ago, when this planet would be all but recognizable… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say,… — Pamela Dean Copy Share Image
“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of… — Maurice Kendall Copy Share Image
“It has only been very slowly that scientific method, which seeks to reach principles inductively from observations of particular facts, has replaced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is… — John Astin Copy Share Image
