We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
Dalai Lama XIVMots clés truth reason buddhism scientific-method research evidence experimentation buddha
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Marc BekoffMots clés science scientific-method evidence data anecdote
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.
Allen M. SteeleMots clés science scientists scientific-method evidence hypothesis observations scientific-inquiry hypotheses
Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify
Robert T. PennockMots clés science naturalism scientists materialism scientific evidence verifiable methodological-naturalism falsifiable observable replicable testable
Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions.
Bertrand RussellMots clés truth learning subjectivity rationality evidence objectivity
There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why not talk about a Universe designed so rocks could one day come to be, and strong and weak Lithic Principles? If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.
Carl SaganMots clés humor science life purpose philosophy nature universe funny meaning cosmology physics evidence laws
In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Mots clés scholarship evidence historical scholar reliability scholarly biblical-scholarship reliable r-alan-woods
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).
Stephen Jay GouldMots clés science biology evolution rationality evidence rigor objectivity scrutiny
If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, ‘Well, that is the funny behavior of the ‘oomph.
Richard P. FeynmanMots clés science imagination theory evidence rationalization rigor scrutiny pseudoscience explainability
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.
Julian HuxleyMots clés reason belief superstition immortality desire evidence agnosticism agnostic irrational
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