Scientific method Quotes

The plural of anecdote is not data.

— Marc Bekoff

“Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

— Steven Levy

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

— Edward Abbey

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

“Behold the Power and the Glory of the Scientific Method!”

— the Onion

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

— Eric Ries

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and…

— Bill Foster

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

— Kary Mullis

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

— Ernest Dimnet

“The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.”

— Herbert Feigl

“One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.”

— Ray Kurzweil

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific…

— Karl Pearson

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness…

— Seth Godin

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

“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

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a…

— J. G. Holland

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and…

— Max Born

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in…

— Huston Smith

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

“We invite skepticism. In fact, we require it. It is an essential mechanism for challenging ideas, identifying errors, and furthering collective knowledge.”

— Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew…

— Ann Druyan

It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the…

— Vincenzo Galilei

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided…

— Bertrand Russell

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,…

— Linus Pauling

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to…

— Elihu Thomson

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge…

— Max Born

Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and…

— Philip Yancey

There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or…

— Paul Feyerabend

“At first he found it amusing. He coined a law intended to have the humor of a Parkinson’s law that "The number…

— Robert Pirsig

“CARLOS: Thanks. But it’s pretty simple. We just follow the scientific method. No matter how advanced the scientific field gets, the foundation…

— Joseph Fink

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

“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most…

— Douglas Adams

“Don’t you know?” he asked with a great show of incredulity. “This is the latest scientific method. It can produce more.” I…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“We can get some relatively clear thought in science. But even there it is not entirely clear because scientists are worried about…

— David Bohm

“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

“He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the…

— Robert Pirsig

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

— Carl Sagan