Accounts Quote by Paul Davies

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

— Freeman Dyson

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

“One of the most profitable consequences of science as an “open system” of knowledge, as opposed to rigid dogma, is that the future Laws…

— Dean Radin

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as…

— Bertrand Russell

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but…

— Richard Hamming

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still…

— Paul Davies

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation…

— Antony Flew

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active…

— John Dewey

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

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

— Robert M. Pirsig