That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one…

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

— Anthony Standen

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can…

— Gavin de Beer

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.

— Dave McClure

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a…

— Kenneth R. Miller

These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents…

— Tarleton Gillespie

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young,…

— Elihu Thomson

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

— Maurice Kendall

My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me…

— Carl Sagan

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

— Francis Collins