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91. Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done.

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Scientific Method

I never thought of doing it any other way. It was the only way I knew. You observed them, you learned from them. Whereas today, even now, students tend to go in the field with a theory to prove or disprove rather than letting the animals teach you. And then we write up our research as if the hypothesis we finished with was when we started with it is completely non-scientific, but we masquerade like scientists. But of course, there are plenty of cases where intuition and science collide. Like the idea that the earth revolves around the sun hurtling through space,. How can things really be that strange at a subatomic level?

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