Fundamental Skills in Science

Fundamental Skills in Science: Observation.

"We value our sight above almost everything else. The reason for this is that of all the senses sight makes knowledge most possible for us and shows us the many differences between things." Aristotle, "Metaphysics", Book I

"You see but you do not observe." Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "A scandal in Bohemia"

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Fundamental Skills in Science: Measurement.

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." Lord Kelvin, speaking to the Institution of Civil Engineers, May 3, 1883

To suggest that measurement is important to doing science seems at best an understatement. It has been acknowledged that "while not every scientific fact is a numerical one, nor every scientific theory a predictor of numerical magnitudes, so many are that we cannot conceive of modern science without the process of measurement (Goldstein & Goldstein, 1978, p. 231).

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