You can't have the second one without the framework set up by the first.
It's all good to have ideas, but you can't have groundbreaking theories that change the way the world works and the people on the world see their role in it change without the backbone of knowledge that's produced by the scientific method.
Maybe it's stodgy, but if you're not an experimentalist, there still is a spot for you in the scientific discourse... but if we didn't have all of those experiments and documented observations backing it up, nothing we say would hold any weight against whatever trippy dreamstate someone else might be coming at the problem from - we have actual data on our side.
Basically, the Scientific Method is probably the most important innovation of the last thousand years. It's the thing that's allowed us all of this wonder, and promises even more wonder in the future, because everything that comes out of it and remains standing is basically true, and we can build technologies that use it. At least until one of those amazing insights comes along like Einstein and twists the whole thing and warps our preconceptions.
Einstein's thought wouldn't have been revolutionary if 1) Newton and many many scientists hadn't been working under a different model that seemed to work wonderfully, that was created by using the scientific method, and 2) The scientific method hadn't been used to verify his intuitions.
that ship has assuredly already sailed, come back to harbour let off its bilge water, gone back out to see, been struck by a freak lightning bolt and sank, never to be seen again.
We wouldn't have heard about it for starters. I definitely agree though.. there are few legitimate reasons to break a person's nose, and "He touched my butt at the pub" probably isn't one of them.
paint them. all sorts of different styles and colors. Have contests to see who paints the best, and have the award for winning (and second and third whatever) be more bunkers to paint.
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It's all good to have ideas, but you can't have groundbreaking theories that change the way the world works and the people on the world see their role in it change without the backbone of knowledge that's produced by the scientific method.
Maybe it's stodgy, but if you're not an experimentalist, there still is a spot for you in the scientific discourse... but if we didn't have all of those experiments and documented observations backing it up, nothing we say would hold any weight against whatever trippy dreamstate someone else might be coming at the problem from - we have actual data on our side.
Basically, the Scientific Method is probably the most important innovation of the last thousand years. It's the thing that's allowed us all of this wonder, and promises even more wonder in the future, because everything that comes out of it and remains standing is basically true, and we can build technologies that use it. At least until one of those amazing insights comes along like Einstein and twists the whole thing and warps our preconceptions.
Einstein's thought wouldn't have been revolutionary if 1) Newton and many many scientists hadn't been working under a different model that seemed to work wonderfully, that was created by using the scientific method, and 2) The scientific method hadn't been used to verify his intuitions.
Vive La Scientific Method.