“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”
“Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.”
“It may not have occurred to you kids that sex is more than a fifteen-minute trip to the backseat of a car. It’s science. And what is science?”“Boring.”
“Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated”
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
“Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.”