Scientific-method Quotes

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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

Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale for...

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you...

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we ...

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among...

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

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to aband...

Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist f...

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily co...

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people r...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

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

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

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

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who beli...

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...