Science Quote by Mark R. Leary

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depictit as involving a search for truth only about the empiricalworld, about what is actual…

— Bas Van Fraassen

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is…

— Bas van Fraassen

“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on a solid…

— Lev Shestov

“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”

— Carl Sagan

“The use of method as the criterion of science abolishes theoretical relevance. As a consequence, all propositions concerning facts will be promoted to the…

— Eric Voegelin

“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

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

— Jerome Ravetz

“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey