Cases Quote by Emile Durkheim

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as…

— Bertrand Russell

IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may be the…

— Adewale Ajibola

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

— Henry Norris Russell

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

— Richard P. Feynman

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical…

— Hermann von Helmholtz