“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
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
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of… — Carl Sagan 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
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and… — Corliss Lamont 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
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore 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
“Network analysis is a relatively recent scientific method for describing and analyzing a web of links among entities, including people.” — Derek Hansen 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
“From Galileo’s discovery of the principle of the pendulum, a totally new concept of the design of timepieces evolved. But what proved… — William Bixby Copy Share Image
“The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“For deriving scientific proof, we have to use scientific method of thinking and analysing every events. The process of thinking has to… — V.A.MENON Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Though I have lived most of my life with educationalists, I have little interest in educa¬ tion. I dislike schools, both for… — Jane Ellen Harrison 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
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
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson 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
“That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true.” — Jim Haines Copy Share Image
“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
