Characteristics Quote by Bertrand Russell

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

— Bertrand Russell

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single…

— Jacques Ellul

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

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…

— Wilfred Trotter

“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the world in…

— John Dewey

What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while…

— Justus von Liebig

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed…

— Joseph Priestley

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to…

— Karl Pearson

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

— Jacques Ellul

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the…

— Claude Bernard