Attitudes and Activities of Scientists

“1. Admits own ignorance, hence need for more research
2. Finds own field difficult and full of holes
3. Advances by posing and solving new problems
4. Welcomes new hypotheses and methods
5. Proposes and tries out new hypotheses
6. Attempts to find or apply laws
7. Cherishes the unity of science
8. Relies on logic
9. Uses mathematics
10. Gathers or uses data, particularly quantitative ones
11. Looks for counter examples
12. Invents or applies objective checking procedures
13. Settles disputes by experimentation and computation
14. Updates own information
15. Seeks critical comments from others.”
-Bunge, 1984

From the book “To Interpret the Earth, Ten Ways to be Wrong” By Stanely A. Schumm

This is one of the books I’m reading. I am borrowing it from Dushan.