But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is almost always recognizable from a distance, and easy to confirm on close examination. Science is, however, not immune from hubris,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“For a scientist, who has placed his faith in the testability of the scientific method, and in his own intellectual ability to… — John L. Betcher Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods… — Mike McRae Copy Share Image
In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question.… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is… — John Astin Copy Share Image
We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it… — Mozi Copy Share Image
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“Look heah, now, I’ve got the wuhks of all the old mastahs—the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
