“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
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins 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
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and… — Tim Keel 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
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 aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend 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
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein 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
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan 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
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
“At first he found it amusing. He coined a law intended to have the humor of a Parkinson’s law that "The number… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
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,… — Tarleton Gillespie 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
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 earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment. — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty 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