Scientific Method Quotes

Scientific Method Quote of the day

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

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

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.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

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

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'.

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

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.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

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.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

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

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

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

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.

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

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

If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.

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

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

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.

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

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).

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.