Science Quote by Karl Popper

Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives…

— Elliott Sober

“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we…

— Robert T. Pennock

Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in…

— Bas van Fraassen

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson

“If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.”

— Melissa Terras

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…

— Stephen C. Meyer

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree…

— David C. Lindberg

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed…

— Hannes Alfven

“The trajectory of this tradition, from positivism to the current variety of postpositivist philosophies of science, has reflected the pressure of a complex reality…

— Helena Sheehan