Murray Rothbard Quotes

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

Scientific method isn't about winning popularity contests. It's also not about being with the majority opinion. It isn't supposed be determined by politics. It is about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.