“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can find the rules for the way… — Lewis N. Roe 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
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
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
'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
“She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list… — Neal Stephenson 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
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin,… — Paul Davies 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
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
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
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the… — Nathan Myhrvold 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
“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
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
“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
The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
