Scientific truth

Debus, Allen George. Myth, allegory, and scientific truth an alchemical tradition in the period of the scientific revolution. Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres, no. 1 (1987) 13-35. 

To state scientific truths or knowledge Present-active PCBs are more strongly retained in the sample matrix as the fat content increases. (From Llompart et ah, 2001)... 

For example, Plaper et al. (2002) state that three Cr + compounds were examined (work done In the past) but that the hydroxyl radical is a known mediator of DNA damage (knowledge that exists in the present). Similarly, the present-tense, active-voice combination Is used in the Discussion section to state scientific truths (knowledge expected to be true over time), just as it was in the Results section. Note that Interpretations and/or mechanisms put forth in a Discussion section are often considered to be truths and therefore are stated in present-tense active voice. Table 5.1 summarizes common verb tense—voice combinations and their functions, with example sentences. 

Check that past tense is used to describe work completed in the past and that present tense is used to report scientific "truths."... 

Refrain from illusions, instst on work and not words, patiently search divine and scientific truth (1, 15)... 

Veblens comment illustrates only one of several parallels between science and history, though perhaps the most important. The search for truth and understanding, whether it be in science, in history, or in any other human endeavor, is a never-ending activity. To assume, even unconsciously, that we have reached some kind of finality is to betray the enterprise altogether. Those who attempt to eschew interpretation and write history as it really was are doomed to failure and disillusionment. Historical truth is no less tentative than scientific truth. 

The Middle Ages (400-1500 A.D.) were a time of Arabic and Jewish contributions to the pharmacopeia. The alchemical advances of the Middle East were passed on during the Arabic invasions of Europe of that time. It should be kept in mind that the Far East also had its systems of medicine and pharmacy of which acupuncture and herbalism still remain and are still under investigation in terms of their efficacy and underlying scientific truths. 

To whatever degree this estimate of Dr. Wilson may be true to the real Cavendish, it may be accepted as a faithful picture of the impression which Cavendish made by his personality upon the great majority of his acquaintances, but no one seems to have doubted his devotion to his ideals of scientific truth nor the consistency and honesty with which he pursued them. 

The measure of scientific truth is the ability of different people to reproduce an experiment. A good lab notebook will state everything that was done and what you observed and will allow you or anyone else to repeat the experiment. 

Curiosity first. The Curies were curious about the mystery that lay in that greyish-black powder. They hecame obsessed with a desire to find out — not in the hope of gaining money or fame but to establish a scientific truth. 

Finally, the senior authors (HJvdK and JdSA) have invited their former student and junior coauthor (KS) to assume the responsibility of first author. His youth, exceptional skills, and critical scientific and engineering attitude will ensure that however distracted we may be by short-term events and "wisdom," in the long term, scientific truth will prevail. 

MPEP 2106 IV. See also Mackay Radio Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of America, 306 U.S. 86, 94 (1939), which states While a scientific truth, or the mathematical expression of it, in not patentable invention, a novel and useful structure created with the aid of knowledge of scientific truth may be. ... 

Mendel6eff worked diligently at his studies and graduated at the head of his class. Never very robust during these early years, his health gradually weakened, and the news of his mother s death completely unnerved him. He had come to her as she lay on her death bed. She spoke to him of his future Refrain from illusions, insist on work and not on words. Patiently search divine and scientific truth. Mendel eff never forgot those words. Even as he dreamed, he always felt the solid earth beneath his feet. 

The area of scientific discovery enlarges rapidly as we advance every scientific truth now known yields many questions yet to be answered. To some of these questions it is possible to obtain answers at the present... 

Scientific truths are tentative and partial, and subject to continual revision and refinement, but as we tinker with truth in science—amending here, augmenting there—we always keep our ear attuned to the timbre of the web. 

You cannot have faith in experimental science and uphold the view that experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth without rejecting the DLVO theory on the basis of the experiments described in this chapter. However, it is much easier to say that an old theory is wrong than it is to say what the right theory is. Fortunately, at the time of our discoveries, Sogami and Ise had pointed the way to a correct understanding of these phenomena [26, 27],... 

Courts of law are not the optimal fora for trying questions of scientific truth... (Zenith Laboratories v. Bristol-Myers Squibb 1994)... 

Zwicky 1933-1934 Idea of flexibility of scientific truth use of multivalued logics in science... 

The main significance of theories and hypotheses is illusory. Notwithstanding their enormous influence upon scientific thought and scientific work at a given moment, they are always more transient than the indisputable part of science which represents scientific truth and survives hundreds and thousands of years, and is perhaps even a creation of scientific reason which transcends the limits of historical time (as something etemal , invariable in geological time)."... 

In the course of time, theories and hypotheses will be replaced by empirical generalisations (Vernadsky, 1988, p. 281). At the same time, Vernadsky does not consider these indisputable scientific truths" to be absolute truths In science we do not deal with absolute truths but with unquestionably exact logical conclusions and with relative assertions whose correctness varies within definite limits. Within the limits, these assertions are equivalent to the logically unquestionable inferences of reason" (Vernadsky, 1991,p.ll6). 

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