In Reply to: RE: The road ahead posted by Tre' on June 23, 2012 at 23:36:19:
That's as good as far as it goes for sure.What we call Science is actually built-up-over-time-- a compendium of man's observations over that time-- things that have mostly worked SO FAR.... and rules and formulae designed to allow one to repeat those observations in another setting. We hope, in such cases, that new information or things changing haven't yet rendered that science obsolete.
We know as a fact that ALL science WILL at some point-- prove obsolete, incomplete, or just downright wrong under the microscope of newer and better observations. Time marches on...
We need science, and we all use it. We then try to apply "the Scientific Method" in order to extend whatever line of reasoning is present-- and to try to prove or disprove something about it.
If truth be told, people really don't have completely original ideas. Guys like myself-- when allowed to think freely and independently-- must also admit that our ideas are partly a result of scientific theory, past people's ideas and inventions, and partly a result of older observations.
The most successful world is that one in which an individual is able to think freely, and apply what a project needs honestly and freely, using all that is at His command, and that does include scientific theory and application.
My earlier post was about that circumstance where people separate out only the rules, formulas, and the formerly proven, and then postulate that those are the only relevant parameters present, and then call that narrow-minded approach "science".
When used in this fashion, "science" becomes a mere religion of sorts and ceases to be wholly scientific.
Instead of being a useful tool, when rigorously applied as a religion, "science" becomes merely another stumbling block to scientific progress.
Our best efforts have been applied whenever the individual has been free to apply what of known Science truly applies to what he is devising, and further-- has been left free to go beyond that-- has been saved harmless from unneeded harrassments-- in order to apply the imagination in ways that will benefit the undertakings at hand in a more complete and desirable fashion.
There's nothing wrong with Science. There's plenty wrong with making it-- or any other one thing-- a religion at the exclusion of all else, rendering needed accurate assessment and reasoning at best incomplete-- or at worst a disaster in the making....
It is a fact that whenever men make mistakes that they didn't need to make-- or should not have made-- in every case there had been people present-- if they had been free to speak-- had known what was misapplied, could have, and would have saved the men from making their mistakes, and from the consequences of those mistakes.
True progress is a wedding of only the science that should be applied to the case at hand-- together with the culmination and application of original thinking about the NEEDS of the project that is at hand.
---Dennis---
Edits: 06/24/12
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- RE: The road ahead - tube wrangler 04:07:17 06/24/12 (45)
- RE: The road ahead - Tre' 11:48:28 06/24/12 (44)
- RE: The road ahead - tube wrangler 11:57:42 06/24/12 (43)
- RE: The road ahead - Tre' 12:24:00 06/24/12 (42)
- RE: The road ahead - tube wrangler 13:43:50 06/24/12 (41)
- Dennis ..... - drlowmu 16:16:45 06/24/12 (0)
- RE: The road ahead - Tre' 14:04:44 06/24/12 (39)
- RE: The road ahead - tube wrangler 19:11:16 06/24/12 (38)
- RE: The road ahead - danlaudionut 21:46:01 06/24/12 (1)
- RE: The road ahead - tube wrangler 22:13:10 06/24/12 (0)
- RE: The road ahead - Tre' 20:30:33 06/24/12 (35)
- There needs to be a showdown in the road...... - lektrik 21:28:03 06/24/12 (34)
- RE: There needs to be a showdown in the road...... - Ralph 11:52:13 06/25/12 (0)
- RE: There needs to be a showdown in the road...... - Tre' 21:44:32 06/24/12 (32)
- Hey Tre! - DanK tubes 13:31:56 06/26/12 (19)
- RE: Hey Tre! - Tre' 18:15:54 06/26/12 (17)
- RE: Hey Tre! - tube wrangler 20:01:41 06/27/12 (15)
- "the proper connections into circuits are in the wrong places" - Tre' 12:45:58 06/28/12 (0)
- here's what started it - GSH 10:48:57 06/28/12 (2)
- RE: here's what started it - drlowmu 11:44:27 06/28/12 (1)
- RE: here's what started it - GSH 12:55:07 06/28/12 (0)
- RE: Hey Tre! - Tre' 10:13:21 06/28/12 (4)
- RE: Hey Tre! - tube wrangler 14:20:10 06/28/12 (3)
- RE: great advice, Dennis... - deathtube 667 05:36:54 06/29/12 (1)
- RE: great advice, Dennis... - tube wrangler 08:52:03 06/29/12 (0)
- RE: Hey Tre! - Tre' 21:00:51 06/28/12 (0)
- Sound Practices Information..... - drlowmu 21:14:01 06/27/12 (5)
- RE: Sound Practices Information..... - tube wrangler 14:40:46 06/28/12 (4)
- RE: Sound Practices Information..... - GSH 16:13:56 06/28/12 (2)
- RE: Sound Practices Information..... - tube wrangler 21:08:43 06/28/12 (0)
- RE: Sound Practices Information..... - tube wrangler 19:37:58 06/28/12 (0)
- RE: Sound Practices Information..... - Tre' 15:02:16 06/28/12 (0)
- Thanks Tre! - DanK tubes 19:49:20 06/26/12 (0)
- RE: Hey Dan! - drlowmu 18:10:41 06/26/12 (0)
- RE: There needs to be a showdown in the road...... - tube wrangler 22:46:36 06/24/12 (11)
- at RMAF - GEO 20:22:18 06/25/12 (10)
- RE: at RMAF - drlowmu 21:36:40 06/25/12 (9)
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- RE: at RMAF - Tre' 16:40:32 06/26/12 (0)
- RE: at RMAF - GEO 15:57:24 06/26/12 (1)
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- RE: at RMAF - drlowmu 07:05:15 06/26/12 (2)
- RE: at RMAF - GEO 15:58:48 06/26/12 (1)
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