A new book suggests that traditional notions about “the scientific method” are flawed and misleading, as Robert P Crease discovers Messy business Science is less of a rigid process and more like a ...
THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...
Around the turn of the 6th century B.C., beside the Aegean Sea in the city of Miletus, the first Greek philosopher concluded that “all is water.” His name was Thales. His pupil, Anaximander, disagreed ...