Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Medawar , P B (2008-10-02), Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought, Retrieved on 2012-06-12Source Material [books.google.com]
Memes
12 JUN 2012
Science is Fanciful and Factual
The scientific method is a potentiation of common sense, exercised with a specially firm determination not to persist in error if any exertion of hand or mind can deliver us from it. Like other exploratory processes, it can be resolved into a dialogue between fact and fancy, the actual and the possible; between what could be true and what is in fact the case. The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture o...It is a competition between what we imagine the answers are and what experimentation tells us they are.