The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human… — Michael Lewis 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
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.” — Herbert Feigl Copy Share Image
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“That position comes down to this. The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical… — Jeffrey J. Kripal Copy Share Image
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In other words, the “rigorously scientific” method of predicting the future can be applied only in special cases-where prompt action is not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method. — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.” — Ken Norris Copy Share Image
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image