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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: A quick restatement for Chris.
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 22:53:28 EDT
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Summary: What is science?
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	Just so we deal in no uncertain terms:

	Here is the best definition of the domain of science that I have
ever heard formulated:

	"Science deals in disprovable assertions.  If something can not
be, in theory at least, disproven, by experiment and/or observation, then
it is not in the domain of science."

	Correlary: nothing can be proven in science, only supported or
suggested.  However, every good scientific theory suggests situations
which would be impossible if the theory were valid, and hence provides
a means to disprove itself.


-- 
	   Craig "Baby Doc" Werner   (future MD/PhD, 3 years down, 4 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                  "Morphology is part science and part 'Ipse Dixit.' "