Applied science Quote by Christian Doppler

“The trajectory of this tradition, from positivism to the current variety of postpositivist philosophies of science, has reflected the pressure of a complex reality…

— Helena Sheehan

The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted…

— Paul Feyerabend

“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

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

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

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many…

— Francis Bacon

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the…

— Paul Davies

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings,…

— George E. P. Box

I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the…

— Lyman Abbott

“The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because it was…

— Louis Menand

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott