Welcome IB juniors! If you are a senior receiving this email, consider yourself lucky that I haven’t deleted your subscription! All of you, welcome! Let’s consider these questions as we study the natural sciences:
1. What does science hope to achieve?
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines?
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples.
4. Base your answers to these questions on your observations, experiences, and readings–including “How To Think Like A Scientist,” “How Science Works,” and “The Nature of Science,” which can be found on the side bar of this website under the topic heading, “Natural Science.”
5. Return to this website on Friday and comment (discuss) on at least three of your classmates posts.
1. What does science hope to achieve?
Science hopes to explain the natural world. Scientist strive to understand the world and how it works by researching and experimenting. Scientist investigate and develop theories in order to describe, categorize, and explain the natural world.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines?
We distinguish science from other academic disciplines because science is about experimenting and being hands on. Science requires us to use our imagination and knowledge of the world in order to solve a problem, while other academic disciplines are simply memorizing. Science is about discovering and wanting to know more.
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science?
I think that the 3 best ways of knowing for science are imagination, reason, and sense of perception. It takes imagination in order to come up with theories and hypothesis. Your imagination helps you see the problem through a different perspective from everybody else. Reasoning is important because it must be logical in order for it to work. You must have reasons to in order to back up your theory. Sense of perception is understanding by using your five senses. Science is a hands on subject. We must use our senses to experiment. Our sense of touch helps us work with what we are experimenting with. Our sense of sight helps us see our experiment and reason with it. All the ways of knowing are essential but these three seem the best suited for science.
1. Science hopes to achieve knowledge and understanding of our natural world and even our supernatural world because they are always creating theories to explain the unknown.
2. We can distinguish science for other academic disciplines because science incorporates other academic disciplines into their studies like math and theory of knowledge.
3. I think that the best ways of knowing are a combination of reason, intuition and imagination. It important that scientist keep their reason but it’s also important to think outside the box that‘s why scientist apply imagination in their studies. Intuition is also needed because when scientists study a subject they can see for themselves they have to make assumptions based on their intuition.
1. What does science hope to achieve?
Science in my opinion is like the quest to explain all abnormalities in our life. Events such as lightning or tsunami may have been believed to be work of the gods. All science are said to be followed by the same patterns but, not necessary using the scientific method after all science derives from the studies and experiments with nature itself. Many see science in a one lens only perspective and that is what science is about, the explanation of the universe. Magic and other religion explanations are defied by science in a similar sense that the truth defies fake.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines?
We can distinguish science from other academic discipline from the fact alone that if there is a reason, there is a theory and academic discipline uses no such phrase as theory.
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples.
Imagination seems fit for science. My reason for this is because if we all follow the same footsteps, humanity will NEVER advance. By branching off the footstep of others, we explore other possible opportunity and ideas that wouldn’t even be imagine through thinking in the box alone. Reason is also a way of knowing for science. For example we all know that gravity pulls a object towards the larger object. The reason is because Earth is larger than us therefore pulls us in instead of us pulling the Earth. That is reason and reason is the driving force of trut. The last way of knowing is intuition.
1. Science hopes to achieve a system of methods where one can understand the universe through extensive experiments as well as to provide legitimate data on your experiments. For those who don’t see it, science is everywhere, literally. The sidewalks, the people around you, and even the clothes you wear are all connected to science. Whether it is Chemistry, Biology, and Material Science, much of the objects we see have somehow been influenced by science through experiments and collecting data. Science not only strives to improve our knowledge of what is already known but to also doubt and constantly asks questions about what is known or unknown. This is what science hopes to achieve; a world where humans would question everything and know nothing.
2. What we can distinguish from Science to all of the other academic disciplines is that science usually follows and builds upon the scientific method. However, all the other academic disciplines like Math and English follow certain formulas and lenses but do not strive to improve it. Science improves its scientific method not by following it step by step, but rather out of order and this allows flexibility to look at one point of view from another point of view and to see which is the best way to approach a problem.
3. Of all the ‘ways of knowing’, I believe that language, memory, and sense perception are the three most important ‘ways of knowing’. Language is important solely due to the fact that many of the people around us learn knowledge through others or teach and vice versa. By building upon one’s knowledge of an idea, the idea grows from a simple thought to a complex system of ideas that branches off new ideas in science. Memory is also an important necessity because it allows us to recall many of the knowledge we have learned in the past without having to learn it all over again. It gives us the opportunity to compare and contrast ideas of today and tomorrow with the ideas of yesterday. Sense perception not only allows us to look at science differently from all angles, but it also allows us to challenge our views and ask why are they different from this angle to that angle? This is probably why we have so many subjects that are all related to science like Chemistry and Physics, two very different subjects, and yet they are very much related.
What does Science hope to achieve?
-Science hopes to achieve the knowledge of the unknown world by using its complex scientific method. Science is all about discovering new knowledge and improving knowledge that is still vague. By using the scientific method and repeating the steps again and again, the world and it people will have knowledge of extraordinary.
How do we distinguished science from other academics discipline?
-We can distinguish science from the other academic discipline by the new knowledge that science has not yet discover. Unlike Math, English, and History, science is a complex system of steps and method. Science is a gateway of a new and never seen before world, that needs the help of its history, english, and math. Science has something new that has yet to be discover, while history is about the past of something that had occurred.
Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples.
-Science in words are best to be describe as
Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples.
-Science in words are best to be describe as imagination. Imagination, although many may not know, but it is something that is useful in science. Without imagination then science is nothing because imagination is the start of everything. Reasons, hypothesis, experiments, and theories revolves around the idea of imagination. Just like what Albert Einstein said, ” Imagination is more important that knowledge” this means that although you are full with knowledge, it doesn’t mean anything until you use imagination. The “way of knowing” in science is imagination because imagination is the origin of all science.
1. What does science hope to achieve? While reading the text I observed that there are two types of sciences, method and reality. I decided to add method as a type of science due to its series of steps like Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Results, and Conclusion. Also, I see method as a science telling you what to do instead of figuring it out yourself. On the other hand I consider reality a type of science too because I believe in reality, scientist mix chemicals, make their own procedures without using procedures that other people have done, In my belief, they are making new and better ideas that no one else has done. It’s like they are trying to invent something better that has their own personal ideas instead of using the same one over and over again.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines? Science can be distinguish in many ways, for example science has to do with the way of life, discovering new ideas that can help our world, creating better technology etc.. Who knows, maybe in the future scientist can invent something better than a flying car?
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples. – In my opinion reason is the best way of knowing. When you want to figure out if something is true you need reasons to back up your statement. Without any evidence no one will believe your statement, they’ll just go straight to thinking you are lying.
What does science hope to achieve
1. What does science hope to achieve? Scientists hope to achieve a better understanding of the world’s function. Through their scientific methods, they can determine whether their stated beliefs could be testable and proven true in the exploration of the world.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines? We distinguish science from other academic disciplines through grasping an insight how we understand our natural world. For example, let us compare an industrialized society of Americans to a traditional society of an indigenous tribe. Since the tribesmen aren’t living in an environment where they aren’t surrounded by technology, they don’t and they won’t know the cause of the environmental occurrences. According to the movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, the tribesmen who hear the sky engines in the sky suggests it to be “the rumbling of the gods’ stomachs,” while we would perceive them as the sounds of the planes that fly above our heads.
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples. I believe that the best three ‘ways of knowing’ that are suited to science are reason, sense perception, and memory. Reasons are often involved in where we question ourselves to assure that our results from an experiment we conducted are accurate. And sense perception is always an action that occurs among many science students when it gets down to safety. By using our human senses, we know where our borders of safety. And memory’s a necessity in distinguishing which are the proper materials or proper measurement units when testing our hypothesis in an experiment.
1. Science hopes to give us an idea of how it used in everyday life and that science is a blend of logic and imagination. It also hopes to teach us the truths of the world. It wants us to view the world from a different perspective. Not just that we see something right in front us, but how it got made and put in front of us to see and use. It wants us to create questions for us to be able investigate and find the answer to those questions. When we see the color red on a shirt we stop and think, how was the color red put onto a white shirt without it losing its color or turning pink. All that happens, because of science, we don’t know it yet, but science wants us to know it.
2. We can distinguish science from other academic disciplines, by seeing what their process was to come to that conclusion and how they back up their conclusion. When a scientist backs up their idea, they use data they have collected from experiments and trials. Those experiments will usually have some sort of error, so it’s difficult to prove something right, without repeating multiple times.
3. The best way of knowing something for science would be reason. It would be reason, because when you see lab results it should be easy to use reason to determine whether or not the results make sense. Also you can use reason, when someone tells you a new idea, that doesn’t make sense, you should know not to believe it. Also when, you see something abnormal, you can use your reason to determine if someone made a mistake or not.
I like how you say that science is different because they back up their data and conclusion. Just like how right now in Ms. just’s class we are learning to get data and support it.
1. What does science hope to achieve? What science hopes to achieve is to determine useful ideas that are built and be used to learn more about the natural world. It means they use the same hypothesis to create better ways of looking more into the investigation or experiment. Gaining knowledge is a trick in science. In the end it’s not always about learning new things about the world or nature. It’s also about the scientist themselves, creating a new project of their own with creativity. For example, last year in my chemistry class, each week we learned a new chapter. We did worksheets, bookwork, and homework, but what mostly benefitted was doing the experiment itself, and being creative with what results we got from the experiment. I got to experiment it myself, depending on which kind of lab we were doing. We learned about the chemical reactions and how it was created by combining it. The outcome was we made a likewise ectoplasm. Also the whole point was to have fun and plus it was Halloween.
2. We distinguish science by how we work out the problem and the steps of processing it. In science, it also relies on creativity, with people thinking outside the box. Compare science to math you see that in science you do use math but the way that it’s proven is different than how you just solve a regular problem, you give evidence. As in science, not everything can be proven but can also be discovered.
3. Science has their own ‘reasons’ to what they discover. Scientist goes through a lot of repetitive experiments to prove their point. When arguing against a scientist, they will give out all the reasoning’s they can to prove their reasons to why is true. For example, they proved that the earth is not flat due to astronauts that has gone to outer space or satellites that were put out there. Another is imagination. Not everybody has the same kind of imagination; because of imagination we all have different kind of creativity. That also counts for scientist because they see the world differently from how we see it. The knowledge they know shows their belief and the way they see it. If I were to say that the sky was white, they would disagree because their imagination knows that the sky is not white, tis it is blue. Not last but least, another is emotion. Scientist has feelings towards what they experience through their projects. Sometimes, when their experiments don’t work out, they can create an amount of anger towards it due to the results that didn’t come out the way they think it would be. Anger wasn’t the only case, if the experiment was to work out in the end, they would be happy because it proves that what they did was right. An example is if a scientist was to grow a tree for five years, they water it every day, it gets sunlight and it’s proceeded into the right pot when it grows, if it was not to grow within the next few years, they would become mad. Why, because they expected the tree to grow over time, but instead they grew anger. In the end if the tree grows, they would be happy because the steps they went through was worth the try and they gained knowledge with success.
1. Science hopes to achieve a correction in the schools teaching systems on the scientific method. Most scientists don’t follow that method in the correct order, yet they create transitions from observations to creating a hypothesis.
2. The idea that separates science from other disciplines is that science isn’t an exact subject. Each lab or experiment on a hypothesis will also always have an error no matter how ridiculous it may seem even the way you pour a liquid for example can alter the speed of a chemical reaction.
3. The “way of knowledge” that could most be applied is reason. For example while creating your hypothesis in an experiment you must gather evidence. Simply to create reason for approving the theory you have made. Another “way” that could be connected with science would be language. When writing a lab report on you experiment you must use persuasive language to gather the reader’s thoughts and gain their opinions on the topic. Also while conducting an experiment you must keep in your memory the past labs that have been done to compare the results to your current hypothesis.
1. What does science help us achieve? Science helps us achieve the just of what everything really is. It is something that we as people ask ourselves every day. Science helps us ask questions about things that we know nothing about , it helps us understand the fundamentals of different species or organism such as cells, insects, animals, and most of all humans. Many people look at science in completely different ways and suggest that maybe a lot of things aren’t what they are meant to be. Science helps us answer the unanswered questions that many people have today, a simple example can be why people ask why the sky is blue or why polar bears are white, science is what helps us answer these questions.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines? Science in its self is completely different than those of other classes. We distinguish science by looking and thinking outside of the box, because if we don’t everything we think we know will be challenged and we won’t know how to back the challenges that are made against us up. Science is all about knowing what things are and what they mean, so that we can have a better understanding of what things really are.
3. Reason, perception, and sense are best suited for science, reason because when we as people look at something we don’t understand we want to ask questions and we want to have a reason as to why we want to know what these things are. Perception because we want to be precise on what it is that we learn and we want to be accurate. We as people do not like to be wrong, and when we are we try super hard to get the correct answer and science is all about testing and asking questions. Sense because common sense tells us to do one thing while our brain tells us to do another, it really helps when we have a better understanding as to why things do what they do.
What does science hope to achieve
1: I believe that science helps achieve to reach for the unknowns in the universe by using what we know already in the universe.
2: I believe that science is distinguished differently from all the other subjects because it is a blend of logic and imagination; it is not biased and is a complex social activity that brings people together to try and understand something that no one understands.
3: The three “ways of knowledge” that seems best suited for science is: reason, sense perception, and imagination. I believe that reason is one of the most suited ways of knowledge because when doing science, you need to be reasonable and logical so that your data matches with your results. Another reason most suited from the ways of knowledge is sense of perception because in science you use your five senses in science. For example when you do an experiment you use your eyes to observe what’s going on, your ears to hear it, your nose to smell, or waft it, you use your hands to get the feel of it and can taste it if wanted. Lastly I think that imagination is one of the best suited for science because science has many different shapes and forms. That is why I think it is best to have imagination in science because it is the unexplored and we have only found hints, and those hints help bring an image to our minds.
according to mr brown whe have found everything we can in the universe. and the elements that whe have not found are only in exreme conditions on diffrent planets
In your second answer when you said that science doesn’t have a bias, I think that science does have a bias though. In Ms.Just’s class, she said that scientist are bias in their work because they each have their own opinion.
What does science hope to achieve?
1- Science hopes to solve the unsolved, and discover the unknown.
2- WE can distinguish science from other disciplines because, science is able to use other disciplines and apply it to their research and testing.
3- Reason and intuition apply to science in my opinion, because to come up with solutions to the world you need reasoning. For example does this make sense? Answers to the world need to make sense and you need reasoning. Intuition is needed for recognizing questions and problems . Language doesn’t have to be something like Spanish or Chinese, it could just mean to understand another topic and its vocabulary. Knowing your vocabulary in science is very important.
4- I choose these answers because throughout my experience in the subject of science, I am being tested for what I know and how I can handle a well blend of other disciplines into one subject. It also makes me think creatively and outside the box, instead thinking in a linear manner. Science is a complicated subject with different parts to it for example physics, chemistry, etc… However, each subject makes use of disciplines and it blends well. Which is why we need to have reasoning for our answers, and intuition to recognize and understand what is put in front of us.
Randy, can you be more specific when you use the term ‘other disciplines.’ Which do you have in mind?
Coey
1. I think science hopes to find the explanations for the reactions between objects that can be observe.
2. In science, there are many steps to be done before a conclusion like observation, hypothesis and experiment, while in math class, all one needs to do is look for the answer using formulas. There can be various answers base on the data collect from experience, but in math, there is only wrong or right answer.
3. The three ways of knowing that best suited to science are sense perception, reason, and memory. I think sense perception is the most important out of all three is because an experiment always start from a question, and the data are normally collected by observation, taste, smell, feel, and even hear. Like I said before, experiment starts from a question and science look for explanation to the question, that’s where reasoning come in and become the second most important, after the evidence which is collected from the experiment. And last but not least, memory, it’s also important because it recalls what you know before the experiment begins, those knowledge can help the experiment goes smoothly.
I somewhat agree with your idea that memory is important. HOWEVER, i think someone could just record the data and later look back at the previous data as a resource. You don’t have to memorize everything thing you do as long as you record your data.
1. Science hopes to achieve understanding of how the universe functions. To understand the laws of the universe. To use what we know to try and find what we don’t know. Only to find another set of unknowns which forces us to use what we found to find the answer to the new unknown.
2. Unlike the other academic disciplines, science is the combination of nearly all of the academic disciplines. It’s distinguishable not by how different it is from the others, but rather by how it contains all the other academic disciplines. Science uses math for equations, English for inferring, analyzing, and sharing our findings. History can be used as a guide of why we have the knowledge we have now.
3. The three best suited “ways of knowing” are reason, perception, and imagination. When looking at a problem or a piece of knowledge, deciding whether or not it makes sense with what you know, helps you to incorporate the knowledge with your understandings. For example, if you know that Walmart is right around the corner, but someone says its 7 blocks away, well, you know that it’s not that far so your reason says to not believe them. Perception is also very important as one person’s view can be very different from another’s. One might see the building as very tall but their friend might say that it’s not that tall and just like any other building. Imagination is third but still a very important part of the “ways of knowing”. If you can imagine the answer, that’s what you would aim for. Let’ say that you want to throw a bag of flower from a 200 floor building, I would at least, imagine a small yet deadly impact on the ground after it impacts the ground. That would be the result I would be looking forward too.
does the universe not change ?
Is ‘universe’ a metaphor that we can rely on to know the cosmos?
Coey
Very nice how you reinforced your ideas with multiple specific examples to make sure the reader has a good idea of your ideas. You also compared Science to specific subjects, and said what qualities each contribute.
1) Science hopes to find a working explanation for all events and occurrences in the Universe
2) Science is different from other academic disciplines because everything is approached objectively, looking for one answer that is right. There are no metaphors or opinions, and everybody can disprove something if they can back it up. It just is.
3) Science relies on reason the most, having you take all that you know and combine it into an explanation for something. Sense perception is also important, as that is how you gather data about the world to compile. Memory, too, is important, because you can compare past occurrences that now only live in your memory.
So, science is an intellectual omnivore?
Is ‘the big bang’ a metaphor? What about ‘dark matter’?
Is memory reliable enough to be used in science?
The Big Bang is a) only a theory b) given a bad name… more of an “everywhere stretch” and was not magical spontaneity.
And no, scientific conclusions should never be based on memory alone, but it’d be a poor scientist who forgot old findings and reports.
I agree with your idea of how science differs from the other subjects. You cannot just say science is right, you have to back up your idea with concrete evidence and data from experiments.
Very nice response,it is quite simplified and very blunt. Although, I wish it was longer as it is entertaining and has a touch of philosophy.
I agree with you that the three most important ways of knowing are reason, sense of perception, and memory, but I think that sense of perception is more important than reason because reason needs evidence, and evidence can be collect by observation.
I like how blunt your answers are and how much they still come to explain in the end.
And, jut for you, I’m leaving a blunt comment as well.
could you give examples
1. What does science hope to achieve? To me it seems that there are two models for science: one is the practical approach often used by science teachers in high school classrooms. This emphasizes procedures and methods for achieving the prescribed goals. The other, however, is the idealist approach, which is more creative, imaginative, and unexpected. This is the science that is exciting and captivating because the possibility of discovery is omnipresent. So, I think that science hopes to achieve the potential for discovery, and the discovery then leads to greater knowledge and understanding about nature. Consider Darwin’s theory of evolution, which has now influenced how we perceive nature and our relationship to other living creatures.
2. Science often emphasizes results which can be duplicated in other controlled environments; in other words, science is repeatable and predictable. So, this process is what should distinguish it from say art, history, or sociology. Yet, as you learn more about great scientific discoveries, you come to realize that many great discoveries were made by accident or from use of imagination. I think science overlaps with religion given that many scientists now operate with metaphysical theories. Think of ‘string theory’ for example. NO ONE can actually see these strings vibrating in 11 dimensions, but physicists believe they could exist. This sounds like religion to me. Where is the repeatable and predictable? Huh?
3. It’s really possible to argue for any three of the WoKs, but right now I will argue for sense perception, reason, and imagination. Einstein imagined travelling at the speed of light. Because of his imagination, we have his ‘special theory of relativity.’ Alexander Fleming noticed that mold in a Petri dish had attached a virus strain. Thank goodness; otherwise we may not have antibiotics today. Reason was used to create the calculations that would both create spacecraft and send humans to the moon.
1. Science hopes to produce knowledge with careful observations and reasoning for the observations. Science starts off with observations, which extends your way of seeing objects and the natural world. One knowledge you learn from a science experiment or any conclusions from observations can also be used with other experiments and observations as well. Science hopes to extend our senses.
2. Science is different from other academic because it is done through a series of steps. Scientific investigations can be repeated and proved wrong. Science is meant to be fun and creative because it surprises people and it uses imagination, which makes people’s different hypothesis and observations.
3. Your sense perception is best suited for science. Science starts with observations and in order to observe, you use your sense perception; such as looking, touching, and listening. When you observe something, you look and recognize what catches your attention. Reason would be another “way of knowing” that’s best suited for science because your hypothesis, data, and conclusion/results have to be reasonable. Another “way of knowing” that best suits science is your imagination. Your imagination creates your hypothesis. For example, when you observe an object and someone else already has a hypothesis, you don’t want to just copy the other person’s hypothesis, so you use your imagination to create your own hypothesis.
4. In “How Science Works,” it states that “science relies on creative people thinking outside the box,” which goes back to imagination being a suited “way of knowing” for science. In “The Nature of Science,” it states that “with the aid of instruments that extend the senses, people can discover patterns in all of nature,” which refers to the sense of perception used to make observations and discoveries.
Ashley,
I like your idea of imagination creating your hypothesis. Often we overlook the importance of imagining before we question. Moreover, I like your enthusiasm that science should be fun. And if you think about it as being creative, it should be fun.
Coey
I like how you included imagination as a ‘way of knowing’ that is suited for science. The way you explained it is clear, makes sense, and makes me agree with it.
I also like how you stated that science can be proved wrong. I hadn’t thought of that, and it is n excellent way of showing the difference between Science and other subjects.
Ashley, I really like your idea of what science hopes to achieve. I can imagine it as a big domino effect. You discover on new thing which leads to another question. Only to find that the answer to that will lead to another unknown as so on.
1. What does science hope to achieve?
To me Science hopes to show the world that all can be explained and that nothing is spontaneous in nature. With the ideas of the scientific method and the fact that each experiment must contain the ability to be performed twice, science tells people that each and every action that happens in the world can and will be explained by either or a scientist or even just a child having fun with a fake experiment he may find on the internet. Without any notion to ‘magic’ or ‘imagination,’ one is only let to assume that the actions in life are set and can be repeated and experimented on; that all in the world is an experiment that can be proven by a person who decides to add onto the experiment. Many laws in science state that there is one rule in life that everything within the same category of the law must follow.
2. How do we distinguish science from other academic disciplines?
We can distinguish science from other subjects because science is all about logic and facts. Unlike in English, science does not focus upon the imaginative side of ones brain/train of thought. Science focuses upon the amount of proof one has for a subject, experiment, or theory. It may have equations and formulas like math, but it isn’t similar to it in that the results vary and that there is no pre-set answer to begin with. Science deals with facts such as history does, but only facts that can be proven multiple times with experiments. Science is a unique subject that contains bits and pieces of other subjects, yet is still different in its own way.
3. Which of the ‘ways of knowing’–emotion, language, reason, sense perception, imagination, faith, memory, intuition– seem best suited to science? Argue for at least three of the ways of knowing and give reasons and examples.
Three ‘ways of knowing’ that are best suited for science are reason, sense perception, and intuition. Reason is best suited for science because reason is needed in order to conduct proper experiments or to comprehend a certain subject. With reason comes intuition, which is needed in order to come to your questions, hypothesis, and your conclusion. Your intuition, or the amount of knowledge you contain on the subject, will allow you to better complete your experiments or analyzes than you would if you hadn’t used it at all. Finally, sense perception is important for science because you need all your senses in order to complete your experiments r observations in the first place. Your sense of touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight all have their own use in the subject of science.
Ivanna,
If history is an ‘interpretation’ of past events, then would you view science as the act of interpreting as well? Should science be an interpretation, or should it be objective and free from human feeling?
Coey
Well, in all honesty, everything in life is an ‘interpretation.’ We interpret songs in different ways depending on our emotions, we interpret articles and stories differently. Essays, poems, even simple facts can be interpreted differently.
Science is in fact an interpretation, for one scientist could interpret results as being say ‘proof of a constant speed of light’ while another could interpret it as ‘alternating speeds coming to the same average speed of light.’ Nothing can be entirely free of human feeling, for all humans can have different feelings towards the same group of facts collected by multiple experiments conducted by multiple scientists, and each ‘interpret’ the results differently.