The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
“What you need is an hypothesis for how you’re going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn’t… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life’s big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“In other words, the “rigorously scientific” method of predicting the future can be applied only in special cases-where prompt action is not… — Alan W. Watts 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
“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing… — George Wald 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
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from… — Carroll Quigley 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 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
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
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous 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
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
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a… — Carl Sagan 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
