Method Quote by Michael Shermer

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

— Tabetha S. Boyajian

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

— Nate Silver

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

— Robert MacArthur

“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.…

— Jason Fagone

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

— Seth Lloyd

Science finds it methods.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever…

— Charles Pierce

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

— Jeff Bezos