Science
Organised knowledge of causes, especially knowledge gained by observation, experiment and reasoning.
Works to read
- Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare, 1902 · Great Books
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper, 1934 (English 1959)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962
- The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes by Imre Lakatos, 1978
- Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 · Great Books
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders Peirce, 1877-1878
- Popular Scientific Lectures by Ernst Mach, 1894
- The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate by Thomas Henry Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, 1860
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- The Principles of Psychology by William James, 1890 · Great Books
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister) by Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister, 1857-1880
- Against Method by Paul Feyerabend, 1975
Passages
And if natural Philosophy in all its Parts, by pursuing this Method, shall at length be perfected, the Bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged.
— Isaac Newton, Opticks
the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical
— Isaac Newton, Opticks
There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
— Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle
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