The scientific approach.

Where do new ideas come from? How much confidence do we have in scientific theories? How should one tackle a new problem "scientifically"? What can science achieve, and what are its limitations? The Scientific Approach, written by the winner of two international prizes for contributions to the subject, answers these and many other philosophical questions in terms comprehensible both to the liberal arts man and to the scientist. An understanding of scientific method, presented here without a mass of technical details, provides a common language through which scientists and non-scientists alike can examine more thoughtfully the planning and interpretation of experiments.