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Re: [Phys-l] nature of science


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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu on behalf of Bernard Cleyet
Sent: Sun 3/19/2006 4:55 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] nature of science


BTW, I read somewhere [pop. science or a text] science is what scientists do.

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See: <http://www.sci-ed-ga.org/pdfs/how-do-science-10-10-04.pdf> slide 11

"In short, science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists." Percy W. Bridgman - From: On "Scientific Method" in Reflections of a Physicist, 1955

Larry Woolf, General Atomics