How to Use scientific method in a Sentence

scientific method

noun
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  • 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 facility was dedicated to the study of more scientific methods of vegetable production.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Characters being smart, caring about each other, figuring out how their magic works using scientific methods, a vast and detailed world.
    — Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2024

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