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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

Scientific Method and Search for Truth

1980

Albert Einstein said that, “the quintessence of science is the eternally problematical connection between the world of ideas and of experience…” The scientific method is a bridge between observations…it is a logical bridge, a conceptual bridge, a verbal bridge between two observations.

Hypothesis formation is not the same thing as the perceived reality. The model is not the reality, however, this is the way the human mind works. Keys to understanding the Scientific Method are as follows:

  1. Cycle of Hypothesis Formation
  2. Cycle of Observation

The above two principles together make up the scientific method. Good Science always gets back to testing another’s (scientists’) hypothesis. It is only limited inquiries that can generate general hypothesis.