Dues Quote by Dennis Lindley

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

— George Stigler

“It is wrong to equate scientific laws, as a human construct, with the absolute truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A scientific law is not a scientific law, if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene”

— Stephen Hawking

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to…

— Talcott Parsons

The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful…

— Max Horkheimer

“Science is a human construct. Scientific laws are as valid as our understanding at any particular moment. Scientific laws are not absolute. Scientific laws…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some…

— George Coyne

“The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking…

— Ronald Fisher

“The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington