David Foster Wallace pointed out a funny irony about our faith in scientific method - really just as a playful bit of philosophizing.
I can't find the quote in my books and didn't get any search results online, so I'm going to have to try and explain it.
Basically, he posited that we only know that the scientific method works because the very same method seems to confirm that it does. We prove our thesis by using the same very same thesis to prove itself.
EDIT: The real, not poorly formulated quote must have been from either of these two books...
Fate, Time and Language: And Essay on Free Will
or
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity <---- Pet Sounds, I just saw your last comment. You should read this!
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