Scientific methods

((Now I have to plead guilty..... I dig the question and my starting set with answers from my notes from last year, but: no reference what so ever on the source. I MUST have read the list somewhere, nice task to find it again))

What is a / the scientific method, what do you use, what do you accept as scientific?

• deductive (if,,,then,,,), testing, rejecting, and replacing hypotheses
• experimental
• use of analogies, metaphors (brain as clockwork, computer, metaphor is time-dependent)
• taxonomical (organizing facts)
• statistical
• historical, evolutionary, development
• ....

not much comment