SCTEC-UF 101 Quiz: THE SCIENCE OF TECHNOLOGY
21 Apr 2016
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We shall want finally to describe that research as a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education. Simultaneously, we shall wonder whether research could proceed without such boxes, whatever the element of arbitrariness in their historic origins and, occasionally, in their subsequent development. normal problems sometimes lead to anomalies. Then begin the extraordinary investigations that lead the profession at last to a new set of commitments, a new basis for the practice of science. scientific revolutions. Each produced a consequent shift in the problems available for scientific scrutiny and in the standards by which the profession determined what should count as an admissible problem or as a legitimate problem-solution . It follows, though the point will require extended discussion, that a discovery like that of oxygen or x-rays does not simply add one more item to the population of the scientist"s world.
