[Phys-L] Re: What is Scientific Process?

[jsd at AV8N.COM (John Denker)]

Here's my $2e-2 worth:
   http://www.av8n.com/physics/scientific-methods.htm

which begins by saying:
> Many textbooks and web-sites describe “the scientific method” in terms most scientists
> find objectionable. Here is an attempt to do better.
>
>     1.    There is no such thing as "the" scientific method. Science uses many methods.
> There will never be a pat answer to the question "what is science". The very notion that
> there could be a pat answer bespeaks an attachment to rote learning that is incompatible
> with scientific thinking.

    ... plus another 1500 words on the subject.