Noun

1. A method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing peer-reviewed theories that best explain the known data.

Quotations

• 1858 - George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears - Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

  Mr. Payne's paper aimed at the introduction of a scientific method founded upon rational principles which were altogether unknown to the mass

See also

• empirical
• falsifiability
• hypothesis

• method
• Occam’s razor
• historical method