Scientific Method Quotes

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We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and… — Carl Sagan
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure… — Rajneesh
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed… — J. G. Holland
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of… — Ira Remsen
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and… — Edward Condon
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. — Percy Williams Bridgman
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the… — Carl Sagan
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do… — Wolfgang Pauli

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