Bases Quote by Ernest Nagel

“Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely…

— Steven Pinker

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their…

— John Dewey

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable…

— Michael Shermer

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by…

— George E. P. Box

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe,…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world…

— Carl Sagan

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Karl Popper