“Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the… — Jordan D. Paper Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the far-fetched, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“and science, can be traced back as a direct result of this deficiency in human thinking. We can express this deficiency in… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing,… — Karl Popper 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