pühapäev, 16. detsember 2018

Teadusmeetod

Objekt
Korratav vaatlus või katse
Andmete kogumine, säilitamine ja avaldamine
Falsifitseeritavus

Hea teadustava





The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945
Karl Popper (1902-1994)

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laupäev, 15. detsember 2018

Teaduslik teadmine

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi