> >> Of course you don't like "either/or" answers. 99.9999999% of the people
> >> don't like "either/or" answers because humans evolved into
> metaphysicians --
> >> not scientists.
> >
> >So scientists are a separate species? I don't think so, they seem to
> >be able to breed with non-scientists...
>
> Brown-eyed people can breed with blue-eyed people too. How many scientists
> do you know personally Eva?
>
Too many... your description below I agree with. The gist of it is,
that science is a method with which we can make the best
approximation available to our reality. So don't identify it with
a group of people, it is only a method of thinking, available to all
of us.
(a note for our artists: this is not exclusive - we may choose art AS WELL to
reflect on our physical/social world.)
Eva
> WHAT IS SCIENCE?
> " ...science is no longer the specialized activity of a professional elite.
> Nor is it a philosophy, or a belief system, or, as some postmodernist
> thinkers would have it, just one world view out of
> a vast number of possible views. It is rather a combination of mental
> operations, a culture of illuminations born during the Enlightenment four
> centuries ago and enriched at a near-geometric
> rate to establish science as the most effective way of learning about the
> material world ever devised. The sword that humanity finally pulled, it has
> become part of the permanent world culture
> and available to all.
>
> "Science, to put its warrant as concisely as possible, is the organized
> systematic enterprise that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses
> the knowledge into testable laws and
> principles. Its defining traits are first, the confirmation of discoveries
> and support of hypotheses through repetition by independent investigators,
> preferably with different tests and analyses; second, mensuration, the
> quantitative description of the phenomena on universally accepted scales;
> third, economy, by which the largest amount of information is abstracted
> into a simple and precise form, which can be unpacked to re-create detail;
> fourth, heuristics, the opening of avenues to new discovery and
> interpretation." [Wilson]
>
> Jay
>
>
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