Research Quote by Bee Wilson

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow…

— Huston Smith

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

“Science is a collection of successful recipes.”

— Paul Valéry

Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter…

— Ian Hacking

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult…

— Bertrand Russell

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

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

“From Galileo’s discovery of the principle of the pendulum, a totally new concept of the design of timepieces evolved. But what proved even more…

— William Bixby