quotes about Scientific Method
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We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
-- Albert Einstein -
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.
-- Arthur David Ritchie -
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
-- Aubrey de GreySource : "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
-- Auguste Comte -
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.
-- Betty Sue Flowers -
You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.
-- David Barton -
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
-- Eric Ries -
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By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
-- Francis Collins -
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
-- Frederik Pohl -
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.
-- Gavin de BeerSource : Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”
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Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.
-- Henry M. MorrisSource : Dr. Henry M. Morris (1974). “Scientific Creationism”, p.5, New Leaf Publishing Group
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Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is
-- J. Allen Hynek -
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
-- Karl Pearson -
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.
-- Karl PearsonSource : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.
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There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.
-- Karl Pearson -
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.
-- Max BornSource : 1951 Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance.
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The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
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'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.
-- Neil Postman -
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
-- Paul Davies -
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman -
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
-- Sigmund Freud -
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There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
-- Steven Novella -
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.
-- Thomas Huxley -
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.
-- Thomas Huxley -
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.
-- Thomas Piketty -
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Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.
-- Victor J. Stenger -
And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.
-- David BartonSource : "The Most Influential Evangelist You've Never Heard Of". "All Things Considered" with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.