Quotes of: Scientific-method Keyword

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The Unity of Science

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

The World As I See It

Raised in a completely nonreligious family, never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

Richard Dawkins

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Konrad Lorenz

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Richard Dawkins

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Max Planck

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

Jerrold Nadler

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

Nancy Pearcey

Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is,...

Douglas Adams

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it pos...

Valerie Sinason

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist

Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.

RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel

The best method to make orders, is when you falling into a dream. And then your orders are appeared in life, are they appeared in real life, or they appeared in new life dream. And why, the best method when you are falling into dream?

VicDoo

Methods of detoxifying and processing plants for human use are known throughout the world, and include a variety of techniques, including dehydration, application of heat, leaching, and fermentation, among others (Johns and Kubo 1988). While it is di...

Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience