The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence… — Anthony Collins 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
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
“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
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of… — Maurice Kendall 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
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
“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real… — Rich Jolly 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
“The scientific method asserts that one cannot prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Seeing more white swans may strengthen the hypothesis, but… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert 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
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the far-fetched, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and… — Max Born 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
“Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the… — Jordan D. Paper 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
“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the… — John Dewey 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
“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
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