Crank Quote by Allan Savory

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

— Timothy Morton

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We…

— Ian Hacking

“Nearly all American behavioral scientists since about 1920, and frequently much earlier, have adapted their study of human behavior to the "scientific" model. Their…

— Frank G. Goble

“From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and advancing many…

— Robert Chambers

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst

Nature is an experimenter.

— Philip Jose Farmer

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny…

— E. O. Wilson

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

— Richard Leakey

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

— Carl Sagan

“With each step in the process, we used the method of science: Observe. Hypothesize. Predict. Experiment. Compare what you expected with what really happened.”

— Bill Nye

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe