Grows Quote by Ian Hacking

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is.…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are…

— Sean M. Carroll

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

— Robert M. Pirsig

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its…

— Carl Sagan

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It is a husk, but…

— Franz Kafka

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

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

— Carroll Quigley