Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
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Scientific Method
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Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"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."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones."
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"And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that."
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"Scientific method: There's a madness in the method."
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"The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience."
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"For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles."
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"The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind."
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"In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going."
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"A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial."
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