Norwood Russell Hanson - Patterns of discovery (1958)

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Seeing is an experience. A retinal reaction is only a physical state...People, not their eyes, see. Cameras, and eye-balls, are blind...there is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

Norwood Russell Hanson

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10−28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

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Facts are simply the things that happen; hard, sheer, plain and unvarnished.

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The observer may not know what he is seeing: he aims only to get his observations to cohere against the background of established knowledge. This seeing is the goal of observation.

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Physics is not applied mathematics. It is a natural science in which mathematics can be applied.

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Physicists do not start from hypotheses; they start from data. By the time a law has been fixed into an H-D [hypothetico-deductive] system, really original physical thinking is over.

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