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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: Floid on April 24, 2004, 11:06:52 AM
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Science is the study of whether a study can be configured to produce a result intended within the constraints of the scientific method.
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Damn, now you made me use up my rationed one thought for today. I guess that means I will have to go read Fox now :lol:
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Science is the study of whether a study can be configured to produce a result intended within the constraints of the scientific method.
Too often that is true. Major discoveries have been deferred for decades because the original researcher has already rejected the result because "it didn't sound right" to him/her, probably because it conflicted with current prevailing theories.
Take analytical chemistry, for instance. A chemist might analyse the amount of bromate in seawater, find the result ten times too high, and conclude that he's got the maths wrong and added a zero somewhere. Most times that's right, but if there was ever a major bromate spill from a chemical plant 20 miles down the coast, the chemist would be none the wiser.
Science is a continual struggle against human preconceptions and dogma, and it's the one weapon we have against these instincts.
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Science is the study of whether a study can be configured to produce a result intended within the constraints of the scientific method.
Good Quote, logic smiles upon thee this day :-)
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Do we really need this to see us through the day? I had enough of this at school, and I don't want to be haunted by it ever again! :rtfm: :destroy:
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You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity.
- Reverend Belling (played by Graham Chapman of Monty Python) :lol:
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:lol:
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I prefer " Tripping The Rift" . . . . :-D
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:lol: