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I dislike hearing people talk about the scientific method. Science is simply the art of understanding nature, including man, of course, using all rational methods. There are a thousand scientific methods, and their only common thread is that they are all rational.

— Laurence McKinley Gould

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Cf. George Boas

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Science is simply the art of understanding nature, ... using all rational methods.

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