18 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Chemistry is a Science of Pure Experimentation
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'...Folksonomies: chemistry experimentation
Folksonomies: chemistry experimentation
It's knowledge was built up without reasoning, but purely through testing.