Ok, it was Francis Bacon that wrote the rules, that clears that up, thanks.
I thought they already put on a "show" for the "show me state" I watched
the show on the web with no commercials
On Friday, August 2, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote:
> ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'cheme...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> "Everyone knows the rules"
>>
>> Jed, do you have a copy of the rule book I could borrow, or at least let
>> me know what page to look on?...
>>
>
> The rule is right here, plain as day:
>
> Nullius in verba
>
> http://royalsociety.org/about-us/history/
>
> Chapter 1, paragraph 1, first sentence: Take nobody's word for it.
>
> As Francis Bacon put it in 1620:
>
> "For we admit nothing but as an eyewitness, or at least upon approved and
> rigorously examined testimony; so that nothing is magnified into the
> miraculous, but our reports are pure and unadulterated by fables and
> absurdity. . . . In every new and rather delicate experiment, although to
> us it may appear sure and satisfactory, we yet publish the method we
> employed, that, by the discovery of every attendant circumstance, men may
> perceive the possibly latent and inherent errors, and be roused to proofs
> of a more certain and exact nature, if such there be. Lastly, we
> intersperse the whole with advice, doubts, and cautions, casting out and
> restraining, as it were, all phantoms by a sacred ceremony and exorcism. .
> . ."
>
> That is the experimental method. There are no substitutes and no
> shortcuts. A demonstration -- worthy as it may be -- is not a test, not an
> experiment, and not a scientific paper.
>
> That has been the rule since the 17th century. It is the basis of the
> scientific revolution. It is also the motto of the state of Missouri and
> source of the Jeffersonian spirit at the University of Missouri. It's on
> the license plates: "show me."
>
> - Jed
>
>
