Approach Quote by Edmund Burke

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

— Edmund Burke

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the…

— Nick Sagan

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for…

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

— Anonymous

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

— William Pollard

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

— C. J. Mahaney

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations…

— Carter G. Woodson

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and…

— Ronald Fisher

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error…

— John William Strutt

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

— Mary Hesse

“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people…

— Albert Einstein