BIO 2129 Lecture 3: Ecology Lecture 2
3 Nov 2015
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What is science: what do scientists try to do, is there a method for doing good science, what distinguishes the scientific perspective from other ways of. The important thing is not to stop questioning. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. From specific cases general rule (i. e. generalizations: it is cloudy it will rain (a generalization, i have observed 8 cabbage white butterflies (pieris rapae) in this habitat . This habitat can only support cabbage white butterflies. Where do hypotheses originate: imagination and intuition chemical structure of benzene) Where do predictions come from: for a hypothesis to be testable, it must make predictions that can be refuted (pa, pb, pc). E. g. species a inhabits in which it can tolerate environmental conditions?: distinguishing between hypotheses requires mutually exclusive predictions.
