Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.