The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question.… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, modern Science is rational and the scientific method is based on rationality. But rationality is a wider concept, and it can… — Corrado Ghinamo Copy Share Image
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“That, in a nutshell, is the scientific method: understand and frame the problem; observe; hypothesize (or imagine); test and deduce; and repeat.… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“ David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“I think [the scientific method is] the only method we have to try to get some approximate understanding of the world. I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There is a current misconception which sees in Jung an early disciple of Freud who subsequently deserted his master. Nothing could be… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can find the rules for the way… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it… — Mozi Copy Share Image
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Look heah, now, I’ve got the wuhks of all the old mastahs—the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image