Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I love this crazy scientific method called asking. It helps me to justify my assumptions. — Terry Mark 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
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
“An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say,… — Pamela Dean 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
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these… — Richard Carrier 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
A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar 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
“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“and science, can be traced back as a direct result of this deficiency in human thinking. We can express this deficiency in… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the… — Robert T. Weston 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
“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
“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
“We can get some relatively clear thought in science. But even there it is not entirely clear because scientists are worried about… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“It has only been very slowly that scientific method, which seeks to reach principles inductively from observations of particular facts, has replaced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image