Science is what scientists do, and there are as many…

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural…

— Carroll Quigley

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

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science is what scientists do.

— Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

— Dennis Flanagan

Science is not always what scientists do.

— J. Allen Hynek

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just…

— Alan Stern

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch…

— John Charles Polanyi

“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the architect, it's…

— Abhijit Naskar

The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

— Francis Collins

“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive manipulation of…

— Joseph Heath