Affair Quote by Wilfred Trotter

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to…

— Karl Pearson

What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while…

— Justus von Liebig

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult…

— Bertrand Russell

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 the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the world in…

— John Dewey

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability…

— Huston Smith

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

“The Scientific Method is a wonderful tool as long as you don't care which way the outcome turns; however, this process fails the second…

— Cristina Marrero

“I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me – I would go so far as to say that it’s…

— Ben Goldacre

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has…

— Leonardo da Vinci