Quotes of: Scientific-method Keyword

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Ernest Lawrence

Kris Kelvin: You mean more to me than any scientific truth.

Solaris

dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...

Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The Principles of Scientific Management

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Jimmy Swaggart

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Lewis Thomas

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame de Stael

Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no ...

Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos

If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in a vertical plane (like the generality of projectiles, such as brickbats and cricket balls), skewed away gradually...

Love

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

If you can't attract a woman, you are, by dictionary definition, sterile.

The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Simone Signoret