History of scientific method

科學方法（英語：Scientific method）是一種獲取知識的經驗證據方法，自17世紀以來一直是科學發展的特徵。科學方法涉及仔細觀察和嚴格懷疑，因為認知假設（英語：cognitive assumption）可能會扭曲對觀察結果的解釋。科學探究包括經由歸納推理創建假說，藉實驗和統計分析進行檢驗，並根據結果調整或放棄假說。

For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence. University of Chicago Press. 1999:

a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b: such knowledge

Vetterling, WT; Flannery, BP, Section 7.1.1. Some History, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing 3rd, New York: Cambridge University Press

Evolution: The History of an Idea 3rd. University of California Press. 2003: 128. ISBN 0-520-23693-9.  e.g. Gauch, Hugh G., Jr.（2003）, Scientific Method in Practice