“The Scientific Method is a wonderful tool as long as you don't care which way the outcome turns; however, this process fails… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin 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
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — Immanuel Kant 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
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn. — Eric Ries 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
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence… — Anthony Collins 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
“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
Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the… — Scott Adams 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
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from… — Carroll Quigley 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
“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
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks 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
It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these… — Richard Carrier 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
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
