Scientific Method Quotes

Scientific Method Quote of the day

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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.

We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

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.

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.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

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.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

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.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

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.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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'.