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Preface to the second volume of the US edition of Reason in Revolt (0 words) |
 | The French philosopher Descartes has a strong claim to be the founder of the modern scientific method, while Bacon in England pioneered the method of experimental science and induction (generalizing on the basis of observed facts). |
| The obsession of the positivists with an imaginary “structure of science”, the fiddling and fussing about meaning and semantics all strikingly resembled the rarified atmosphere and convoluted debates of the medieval Schoolmen. |
| However, startling developments in modern science have provided the most striking confirmation of the dialectical method, which turns out to have a very great relevance to all aspects of science, and particularly to the cutting edge of modern science. |
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Exact Science? (1792 words) |
| Hence, astronomy and physics may be considered as reasonably exact sciences, though even here when we approach infinite magnitude, as of distance in astronomy, or infinite smallness, as of electrons in physics, and our measuring devices are not sufficiently acute, we discover a wide margin of inexactitude. |
| Sciences which relate wholly or in part to human nature are considered the least exact. |
| Genealogy, as one of the sciences in which human nature is a factor, is considered to be one of the less exact sciences. |
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