07 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Reason Requires Experimentation
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.Folksonomies: reason experimentation
Folksonomies: reason experimentation
The observer must be actively engaged with nature, interrogating it, rather than playing the passive pupil.