Answers Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

— Michael Crichton

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable…

— Michael Shermer

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We…

— Ian Hacking

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember…

— Carol Tavris

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

— James Bryant Conant

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are…

— Sean M. Carroll

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

— Edgar Mitchell

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty…

— Anonymous

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their…

— John Dewey