Quotations: On Scientific Process

From Science Besieged

Perhaps the most basic aspect of the scientific method is that despite all personal passion and ecstasy in the doing of it, the results are to be completely invariant with respect to private longings or individual differences.

--Gerald Holton, from Science and Anti-Science (Harvard University Press, 1993), excerpted in "The antiscience problem", The Skeptical Inquirer, Spring, 1994.