Correcting Quote by Neil Postman

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the…

— Neil Postman

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”

— Leonard Susskind

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

— Thomas Huxley

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not…

— Wilder Penfield

“When a particular function of the mind does not work well, it shows how effective the brain is when it does.”

— Joel Levinson

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley”

— Thomas H. Huxley

“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the world in…

— John Dewey

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that…

— Albert J. Nock

“Thus we can accept the wonderful results of the neuroscientists, accept that the mind, via neural behavior, is classically causal, and refuse the conclusion…

— Stuart A. Kauffman

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken

That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One would find,…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most…

— Nora Bateson