How to Use scientific method in a Sentence
scientific method
noun-
The book shows kids how to find the answer through the scientific method.
— Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2021 -
The point of this is not to abandon the scientific method or throw up our hands at the search for truth.
— Mona Charen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018 -
It’s like a scientific method that tells you to bring your mind to change your mind.
— Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022 -
It’s the perfect time to invest in the CSO role and bring the scientific method to bear in business.
— Robert Lindner, Forbes, 7 July 2022 -
That is of course the way scientists are meant to think—that’s what the scientific method is.
— The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021 -
But open debate and inquiry is the essence of the scientific method.
— Allysia Finley, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022 -
The road to this retraction shows both what is good and what is bad about the way the modern scientific method works.
— The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019 -
That is not a flaw in the scientific method nor in our way of thinking today; that is the nature of science.
— Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 29 June 2021 -
Adherents of the scientific method are trained to isolate and change one variable at a time.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020 -
So, no, this experiment was not a paragon of the scientific method.
— David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2020 -
Science, and the scientific method, are just ways of describing what is happening in the world around us.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2022 -
It's called the scientific method, something we were taught from early age in our schooling.
— Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021 -
This is the scientific method, to ask this tricky question and find a way to get a good approximation to an answer to it.
— Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022 -
The public is observing the scientific method up close and in real-time.
— Allyson Chiu and Razzan Nakhlawi, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2021 -
The scientific method, applied as it is meant to be, ennobles us.
— Rick Pescatore, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017 -
As in the scientific method, test new technology against a control to show clear ROI.
— Prasad Akella, Forbes, 3 May 2022 -
In both a parody of and an homage to scientific method, Levenson offers a metal desk and a set of tools.
— Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 -
Here are two examples of the scientific method at work in our business efforts.
— Borya Shakhnovich, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022 -
That’s what The Crossover seeks to determine in a somewhat-scientific method decided by you, the fans.
— Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017 -
For people consuming rightward media, truth is not the stuff of fact checks and scientific method.
— Lee Drutman, New Republic, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Jeff Glassman, a scientist at Hughes Aircraft, stressed the importance of math and the scientific method to his son.
— Matt Hart, The New Yorker, 20 July 2021 -
Montessori saw her method as one that progressed through trial and error—a scientific method.
— Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 -
To me, the idea that physics could prove that the God of Abraham is not the creator and ruler of the world reflects a serious misunderstanding—of both the scientific method and the function of the biblical text.
— Jeremy England, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017 -
The heart of the scientific method is the process of formulating a hypothesis and collecting data to test it.
— Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020 -
There is no more powerful tool against prejudice than the skepticism that comes with the scientific method.
— Charles King, Time, 6 Aug. 2019 -
His paeans to the scientific method, as in the essay likening poetry to mathematics, dangled weirdly on the edge of spoof.
— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2021 -
This supposedly scientific method of growing food is one of the largest drivers of climate change.
— Raj Patel, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021 -
Many times, foods that have a theoretical effect don't have a real-life effect that holds up in the scientific method.
— Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2021 -
The medical examiner reported that there was no scientific method to determine how long the babies had been frozen.
— Stepheny Price, Fox News, 3 May 2024 -
The facility was dedicated to the study of more scientific methods of vegetable production.
— USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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