Scientific Approach Quotes

“Science’s skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the security of seemingly eternal truths. If the scientific approach were just one more interpretation of the cosmos, it would never have amounted to much; but science’s big-time success rests on the fact that it works. If you board an aircraft built according to science – with principles that have survived numerous attempts to prove them wrong – you have a far better chance of reaching your destination than you do in an aircraft constructed by the rules of Vedic astrology.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

“She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it.”
― Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character