98 Quotes About Scientific-method

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.

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.

Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence.

Research; the curiosity to find the unknown to make it known.

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 limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.

Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.

إنه لمنظر جميل وجليل أن ترى الإنسان يرفع نفسه من العدم بجهده الخاص ، ويبدد، بنور عقله ، تلك الظلمات التي لفته بها الطبيعة ، إنه ليرفع نفسه فوق نفسه ، وينفذ بروحه إلى أطباق السماء وينطلق كالشمس بخطوات جبارة عبر الفضاء الشاسع للكون . روسو / مقال عن الفنون والعلوم