experimental science
Hypothesis-testing discipline
Experimental science is the branch of scientific inquiry that tests hypotheses through controlled experiments and direct observation rather than pure theory or mathematical modeling.
Physics, chemistry, and biology are experimental sciences; mathematics and theoretical physics are not.
The term emphasizes hands-on investigation: Her background is in experimental science, not computer simulations.
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- paradigm shiftsFundamental conceptual revolutions
- reproducibilityAbility to repeat findings
- chemistryStudy of substances' interactions
empiricism · microscope · natural philosophy · replication · trial and error · peer review · peer reviewed · control group · double blind · hypothesis · falsifiability · medical research · lab rat · Karl Popper · epistemology · ethical guidelines · Nobel Prize · biology
- empiricismempiricism, positivism, empirical research, inductive reasoning, Vienna Circle
experimental sciencepure mathematics
Mathematics pursued abstractly
formal logic · armchair philosophy · metaphysics · abstract reasoning · deductive reasoning
experimental sciencemysticism
Pursuit of divine union
theology · superstition · pseudoscience · folk wisdom · tradition
experimental sciencenatural history
Study of organisms and environments
survey research · simulation · meta-analysis · literature review