Quotes by Scientific Method 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 Born scientific-methodtwobelieve But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Max Born scientific-methodtechnologymen 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 scientific-methodfoundationnames '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 scientific-methodmindmistake A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial. Neil deGrasse Tyson scientific-methodgoing-awayscience 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 scientific-methodlawfeelings Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. Percy Williams Bridgman scientific-methodscientistscience There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method. Peter Kreeft scientific-methodwayreligion Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare. Peter Medawar scientific-methodexpressionfacts Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. Richard P. Feynman observationscientific-methodreason In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going. Robert A. Heinlein scientific-methodraceworld Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll scientific-methodexperiencescience Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements. Rudolf Carnap accountsscientific-methodscience 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 scientific-methodphilosopherpoet There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know. Steven Novella skepticismscientific-methodmethod The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience. Terence McKenna scientific-methodpsychedelicbears For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles. Thomas Aquinas scientific-methodprinciplesscience The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. Thomas Huxley scientific-methodexpressionmind 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 scientific-methodshoesanimal 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 scientific-methoduselong«123»
