Natural world Quote by Stephen C. Meyer

“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we…

— Robert T. Pennock

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to…

— Immanuel Kant

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by…

— Humphry Davy

Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to…

— Richard Lewontin

“The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because it was…

— Louis Menand

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson