98 Quotes About Scientific-method

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

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

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

Many people say all sorts of things, they usually do others, and they prove what they say even less.

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

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.

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

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

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.