Behavior Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“Nearly all American behavioral scientists since about 1920, and frequently much earlier, have adapted their study of human behavior to the "scientific" model. Their…

— Frank G. Goble

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences…

— John B. Watson

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

“It appears that the probabilistic sciences of psychology and medicine teach their students to apply statistical and methodological rules to both scientific and everyday-life…

— Thomas Gilovich

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can…

— John Herschel

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even…

— Pope Paul VI

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple,…

— David Hume

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by…

— Julian Baggini

“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

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…

— Jerry Fodor