Philosophy." The famous 'confli a battle between combatans of tl if -vou will-and not, saY, betrctr a point of order and a postap s: Science is obviously like ReQ 2 What Is Science? John Ziman To answer the question "What is Science?" is almost as presumptuous as to try to state the meaning of Life itself. Science has become a major part of the stock of our minds; its products are the furniture of our surroundings. We must accept it, as the good lady of the fable is said to have agreed to accept the Universe' yet the question is ptrzzlingrather than mysterious. Science is very clearly a conscious irtifact of mankind, with well-documented historical origins, with a definable scope and content, and with recognizable professional practitioners and exponents. fne task of defining Poetry, say, whose subject matter is by .orn*on consent ineffable, must be self-defeating. Poetry has no rules, no method, no graduate schools, no logic: the bards are self-anointed and their spirit bloweih where it listeth. Science, by contrast, is rigorous, methodical, academic, logical and practical. The very facility that it gives us, of clear understanding, of seeing things sharply in focus, makes us feel that the instrument itself is very real and hard and definite. Surely we can state, in a few words, its essential nature. It i$ not difficult to state the order of being to which Science belongs' It is one of the categories of the intellectual commentary that Man makes on his World. ,lmongit its kith and kin we would put Religion, Art, Poetry, Law, Philosophy, Tichnology, etc.-the familiar divisions or "Faculties" of the Academy or the MultiversitY. At thii stage t do not mean to analyse the precise relationship that exists between Scienci and each of these cognate modes of thought; I am merely asserting that they are on all fours with one another. It makes some sort of sense (ti'oueh it may not always be stating a truth) to substitute these words for one anothir, in pirases like "science teaches us . . ." or "The Spirit of Zaw or "He is a student of is...,, or ,iTechnology benefits mankind by..." 28 or less coherent set ofideas. [n irs o ir does not act directly on the Poetry, we may concede, sPeak Art can seldom be written or er non-material realm. But in what ways are ther fo are the special attributes of ScL of demarcation about it, to distinl or from Poetry? One can be zealous for sciencr without pretending to a clear a In practice it does not seem to m Perhaps this is healthy. A dc average churchgoer, and the ordir about the nature of sovereigrrry' though Church and State dePe we may reasonably leave them tr scientist will say that he knort he is doing, and so long as he i of knowledge he is content to nature of Science to those self-ap1 A rough and ready conventional Yet in a way this neglect of' by professional scientists is stn difficult, rather abstract, highb' they can get from general theo may not in Practice be very H they would be taught to Young are taught PhysiologY and bud acquaint themselves with Plaro goes into alaboratory, howwillh if he has not been taught the non-scientific one? 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Then, with considerable performs and criticism, he sets up his apparatus, makes his measurements' a is accounted and thesis his calculations, etc. and in due course writes a been made have time any q""fin.O professionat. But notice that he will not at his thesis in a step ;;;ily ior-al logic, nor will he be expected to defend why he had made him LV .,.p a.Ouctive frocedure. His examiners may ask or they may enquire some particular asiertion in the course of his argument, ask him may They ; ,; i* reliability of some particular measurement.made to theeven as a subject to assess the value of the 'tontribution" he has Physics to whether as *r,ot.. But they will not ask him to give any opinion in an external is ultimately true, or whether he is justifred now in believing of favourable observation world, or in what sense a theory is veri{ied by the with them shares irrriu*.r. The examiners will assume that the candidate really No scientist and principles of their discipline' the common language -are a common than more verihed by observation, any doubts that theories that hearsay evidence is inadmissible. rule to hesitates Lu* irOg" what one finds in practice is that scientific argument, written or spoken, that are is not very complex or logically precise' .The terms and concepts in put together are they used may be extremely ,rritl" an^d technical, but machinery the as relations qrii. ri.pr.logical forms, with expressed or implied types of a.ar.iior. 1t is very seldom ihut on. uses the more sophisticated proving by proposition pi""f used in Mathematics, such as asserting a mathematical or "i ,t u[ i , negation implies a contradiction. Of course actual many steps, but through ."*r.i"A Inalysis oi dutu may carry the deduction of the computer circuits ,-t" ryr.U"fi" machinery of algibra and the electronic experience, own my In are then relied on to keep i-he argUment straight.l than reasoning verbal the in one more often detects elementary non sequiturs This them' accompany in itre calcuiations that actual mathematical .i.,ut "t simply mean I is not said to Oisparag; the intellectual powers of scientists; different from what that the reasoning or.1 i, scientific papers is not very problem' everyday of an we- should use in an everyday careful disCussion *logico-inductive" the of . .- . [fhis pointl ir-*#. t" emphasize the inadequacy few scientists are interested metaphysic of Science. Ho* .u, tt i. U" correct, whin But then in or understand it, and none ever uses it explicitly l".q: work? by a neither disciplines if s.i.r". is distingu-iitred from other intellectaual particularstyleor****lgrbyadefinablesubjectmatter'whatisit? title:.scrence Is Public The answer p.opir"J in this essay is suggested by.its the sugThis is, of course, a very cryptic definition' with almost following the along gestion of a play upon words. what I mean is something or information' Anyone mal lines. Science is not merely publishedknowledge if he has the financial make an observation, o,"'on"ti'" a hypotheiis' and Xriikasr. Erq it Printed and distril is more than this- Its study and testing bY other 8et brlcdge o-ial have been fOUnd SO persrnci is not ju -E obirtive of Science its srradi$ory notions; goal i db possible field. h a sense, this is so obvious a h educated and informed Pa hsible to gainsaY. But I asss &hsic PrinciPle uPon which St .frlce of the "Scientific Metho The defect of the conventiona @siders onlY two terms in thec Fsling a somewhat one-sided notices regularitit: alrnoes, etc. and eventuallY, Hc tbmena, h it is not like that at all- Tl udy, in Newton's incomParab and hence can see a linlc cyes-and also through the eyes c individual that goes througl I tfoup of individuals, divi'rint fuking each other's contributit "Ilcnce we arrive at the conchsi pblications are addressed is bqrquets or brickbats' it actirt rbns that it receives. In other words, scientific resr Bdigion are PerhaPs Possible fi DL To understand the nature' liuts, rcie"ntists behave towards one at mation Passes between them- Tl but he learns bY imitation al rmbodY strong social relationsl play his roleir.a system bY whi made public Property. It has, of course, long been r to the civilization of Western Science, and its relations to oth hfe, is much debated. Is it a o of Protestantism-or what? 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How should decisions be taken about expenditure on research? And so on. These problems, profoundly sociological, historical and political though they may be, are not quite what I have in mind. Only too often the element in the argument that gets the least analysis is the actual institution about which the whole discussion hinges-scientific activity itself. To give a contemporary example, there is much talk nowadays about the importance of creating more effective systems for storing and indexing scientific literature, so that every scientist can very quickly become aware of the relevant work of every other scientist in his fietd. This recognizes that publication is important, but the discussion usually betrays an absence of careful thought about the part that conventional systems of scientific communication play in sifting and sorting the material that they handle. Or again, the problem of why Greek Science never finally took off from its brilliant taxying runs is discussed in terms of, say, the aristocratic citizen despising the servile labour of practical experiment, when it might have been due to the absence of just such a communications system between scholars as was provided in the Renaissance by alphabetic printing. The internal sociological analysis of Science itself is a necessary preliminary to the study of the Sociology of Knowledge in the secular world. The present essay cannot pretend to deal with all such questions. The "science of Science" is a vast topic, with many aspects. The very core of so many difficulties is suggested by my present argument-that Science stands in the region where the intellectual, the psychological and the sociological coordinate axes intersect. tt is knowledge, therefore intellectual, conceptual and abstract. It is inevitably created by individual men and women, and therefore has a strong psychological aspect. It is public, and therefore moulded and determined by the social relations between individuals. To keep all these aspects in view simultaneously, and to appreciate their hidden connections, is not at all easy. It has been put to me that one should in fact distinguish carefully between of knowledge, Science as what scientists do, and Science as a social institution. This is precisely the sort of distinction that one must no, make; in the language of geometry, a solid object cannot be reconstructed from its projections upon the separate cartesian planes. By assigning the intellectual aspects of Science to the professional philosophers we make of it an arid exercise in logic; by allowing the psychologists to take possession of the personal dimension we overemphasize the mysteries of "creativity" at the expense of rationality and the critical power of well-ordered argument; if the social aspects are handed over to the sociologists, we get a description of research as an N-person game, with prestige points for stakes and priority claims as trumps. The problem has been to discover a unifying principle for Science in all its aspects. The recognition that scientific knowledge must be public and consensible (to coin a necessary word) allows one to trace out the complex inner relationships between its various facets. Before one can distinguish and discuss separately the philosophical, psychological or Science as a body dimensions of Sclr &racterizing it as a whole.2 lo an ordinary work of Scitr Irpothesis that is being teste4 t Gporting the results of the exPc rify or negate it. The resuls th is scope and limitations. The p siotogical Ilaving sketched a point of vier rin to a number of particular t rten seen from this new angle. I 6c various ly subjects have bem ar: intellectuol-as, for example, rifrc and non-scientific disciplim 6e significance of scientiFrc crea tilic community and the ins rrandards and procedures. Beyo fo likely to be pretty haphazar{ rhat I think until I have heard l. This point I owe to Professor 2. fience a true philosoPhY of rll p as one of waves, particles and 40. r K&r scir rydo 'uoltorlunwwoC to stuawrutsul q qllpelol^I ,lclnu6 ,,'qoqurfs puB salclu?d 'sa^?,n Jo ouo sE salrotBroqEl puB slsllualcs Jo /qdosolJqd B aq 'ot'd s? 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