"Modern experimentation is often like driving an automobile. The details and theory of the instruments being used in the experiment are not known to the experimenter except in a very general way. (...) Experimenters are taught in an explicit way, often, how to write up reports of their experiments. But the tradition here is like sports reporting. Only the results of the experiment are reported in any serious detail. The procedures are not."
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Philosophers from the United StatesMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople from OklahomaNational Medal of Science laureatesStanford University faculty
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