Quotes about Scientific method

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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology. — Stefan Molyneux
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction. — Stefan Molyneux, Against The Gods?
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by l — Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
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 tru — Jonah Lehrer
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who believe that 'belief' mu — Max Born, Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede
Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s fut — Bill Gaede
To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be determined by noth — Charles Sanders Peirce, The Fixation of Belief
If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I sai — Richard Feynman
I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I — Michael Crichton
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is s — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The plural of anecdote is not data. — Marc Bekoff
I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the — Michael Crichton
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is li — David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a — Donald L. Ewert
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the al — Jordan D. Paper, The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology