Argument Quote by Roger Bacon

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and…

— Gaston Bachelard

Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth…

— Ernst Mach

“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

— David Deutsch

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

— Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only…

— Michael Crichton

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without…

— Jose Padilha

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views…

— Lisa Randall

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

“We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they…

— Richard Dawkins

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

— Lisa Randall

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac