Quotes of: Scientific-method Keyword

’s discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of —such penetrating minds as and —were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the h...

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in an effort to rationalize the glaring inadequacies of tbe Bible. A handful of Christians appear to hav...

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particula...

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent design. Even though writers like and are motivated at least in part by their religious beliefs, the e...

Thomas Nagel

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Thom Mayne

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Robert Henri

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Rudyard Kipling

There’s nothing mysterious about Cosmic Ordering, it’s simply a method used to transmute thought into reality.

Stephen Richards

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

Timothy Ferriss

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thomas Gray

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia

Tite Kubo

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Leslie Fiedler

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

M. Kirin

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

Steven Spielberg

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Vincent Canby

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Anthony Kiedis

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Albert Claude