Four levels Summary of ‘We are all scientists’ by T.H. Huxley

Since I didn’t happen to have in my archives the four levels for the text “We are all scientists”, I am providing you guys with outline for now. So, good luck with being scientists, and working out the levels on your own. Oh… I am so proud of you!

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We are all Scientists

-T.H. Huxley

The main points to be noted for this essay are given below:

It is assumed that “all human beings are capable of using logic”. Working of human mind is full of logic. It is the mental operation of man. We are scientists at normal condition, not when we are tensed. If we decide aptly, we are scientists. Therefore, whatsoever we do, we are still scientists. Arguments based on experience or observations are best expressed inductively. Arguments based on laws, rules or other widely accepted behaviors are expressed deductively.

Huxley was trying to explain scientific thought to lay persons. Scientists employ process of induction and deduction, arriving at natural laws through interference, validating them by deductive process of empirical investigation. All of which, thought Huxley, seems to cause the average person to shake his/her head, convinced that scientists engage in intellectual thought processes that are far out of reach of ordinary persons. But he maintained readers will be delighted to learn that we have been using induction and deduction all our lives and that, indeed we are all scientists. The scientists’ use of these processes is far more refined, consistent and precise. The basic processes however are the same.

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