Topic > Advantages of the Scientific Method - 1010

IntroductionThe scientific method is a process of investigating the world around us and gathering knowledge over time by our scientists. Most people in the world are familiar with the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Every day our world witnesses many impressive inventions, discoveries that have a great impact on human life. The effort that someone makes to bring a change to the world we live in and to impact human life is enormous and awe-inspiring. There are many insightful people behind all these intuitive inventions and discoveries. These intuitive tasks arise in the thought process of individuals who venture to find a solution to the uncertainty in their minds. These people do a lot of background work, get solutions to problems, and perform a lot of observations and experiments on the solutions they have arrived at to conclude a result. This process is often called the scientific method. Robert Millikan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, once said: "Science walks on two feet, that is, theory and experiment." Sometimes one foot is proposed first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only achieved by using both – theorising and then testing, or finding new relationships in the process of experimentation and then bringing the theoretical foot up. and pushing it further, and so on in an infinite alternation'. Seeking the truth with clear thinking has brought us to where we are today. Scientific methods provide us with a way to not delude ourselves with ignorance. Scientific methods can be simply described as the ability to systematically investigate along with taking notes, learning from colleagues and from previous mistakes. The scientific method provides us with a way to gain knowledge... middle of paper.... Mass, length, area, and volume are some of the common measurements. Conjectures A conjecture is an unproven point that appears to be right. It is sometimes called a hypothesis when it is used very often in proofs. The process of the scientific method involves creating conjectures, predicting them with the help of observations, and performing experiments based on them to prove the hypothesis. Conclusion Every day our world witnesses the use of scientific method in many inventions, discoveries or anything around us. These intuitive tasks will lead to great inventions or theories by scientists who are venturing to find a solution to the uncertainty in their minds. The scientific method that distinguishes scientific experiments and other forms of explanation. Knowing a theory is nothing more than knowing how to arrive at a result with the help of observations and experiments.