How to science a science with science

“The purest description of the scientific method I ever saw was in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. A workman discovers that if he puts a bucket full of nuts and bolts on one of the many supporting struts of the Tevatron supercollider, he can talk to the dead. He shares his finding with a scientist who, rather than scoffing as one might be inclined to do, says “show me”. That’s it. Not a method as such: more an attitude of mind…”

“… Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically, perhaps by a machine, or else concocted and dispense by a machine without human intervention – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”

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