Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefor objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Physics is not about discovering pre-existing truths but about creating methods to organize human experience objectively.
- In plain terms
- Science organizes our experiences rather than just finding what is already there.
- What can you take from it?
- Focus on creating objective methods to describe experience.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we define objective experience?
- What limits our methods of ordering?
Another view
It ignores the role of intuition in scientific discovery.
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