Admitting Quote by Isaac Newton

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the…

— Paul Dirac

“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Issac Newton

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet…

— Isaac Newton

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties…

— Isaac Newton

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