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Scientific Method Quotes

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Letter on the China Root, quoted in "Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564" by Charles Donald O'Malley, 1964.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books