The phrase "application of scientific methods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing research, experimentation, or any systematic approach to problem-solving that involves scientific principles.
Example: "The application of scientific methods in this study has led to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "use of scientific techniques" or "implementation of scientific approaches".
In the late 19th century, however, increasing knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of fibres led to application of scientific methods.
Operations research, also called operational research, application of scientific methods to the management and administration of organized military, governmental, commercial, and industrial processes.
But they also insist that the key to making consistent, high-quality wine lies in the careful application of scientific methods and modern techniques.Who can argue with that?
Comte shared Saint-Simon's appreciation of the growing importance of modern science and the potential application of scientific methods to the study and improvement of society.
Rejecting metaphysics, theology, and idealism as means of solving national problems, the científicos advocated what they considered to be the practical application of scientific methods, specifically those of the social sciences, to problems of finance, industrialization, and education.
Thus, Aristotle was wrongly accused of extreme formalism, irresponsible use of syllogisms consisting of empty or irrelevant concepts, a multiplication of pseudo-real entities, and the application of "scientific" methods to facts that could be vouched for only by faith.
For example, some of its hard-nosed advocates undertake to postulate a soul or a god, if doing so turns out to be part of the best explanation of our experience, for that would be an application of scientific method.
Calling the book "a triumphant application of scientific method to literary-attribution studies," the writer and editor Jonathan Bate, who left Peele out of his 1995 Arden edition of "Titus," wrote in a recent article in The TLS, the British literary weekly, "I am in the privileged -- or perhaps embarrassing -- position of being able to confirm the accuracy of Vickers's diagnosis".
