Do we know how to train a man to be a scientist, or do we simply mean that some of the people who attend our graduate schools eventually become scientists? it is a mistake to identify scientific practice with the formalized constructions of statistics and scientific method, says skinner. As formal disciplines they arose very late in the history of science, and mosl of the facts of science have been discovered without their aid.
Do we know how to train a man to be a scientist, or do we simply mean that some of the people who attend our graduate schools eventually become scientists? it is a mistake to identify scient…