EESA01H3 Lecture : EESA01 UTSC Lecture 1 Notes- The Scientific Method

• School: UTSC
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EESA01H3
• Professor: Carl Mitchell

Document Summary

Origins of this course are in physical science, not social science. Driven by scientist that is kept up and finds gaps and chases new knowledge about those gaps. Scientific method- a set of rules that helps you move from a question to a certifiable and valid knowledge. Scientific method, can never show that a theory is correct, can only support that theory in continuum but can never prove something without a doubt. That is why the main reason why these scientific things like climate change and stuff still is argued about. Theory is only correct until some vigorous scrutiny reveals it to be incomplete. All of these things used to be believed to be true until someone found knowledge that did not fit with it. It is always good to have a little doubt. Sometimes it is not easy and almost impossible to prove wrong. Doubt and questioning lead to better understanding.