All scientific constructs or so-called theories are constructs of the mind. In that sense, we accept them just in terms of whatever evidence we can gather in their favor or against them.

In the field of the empirical sciences, more particularly, he constructs hypotheses, or systems of theories, and tests them against experience by observation and experiment. I suggest that it is the ...

The first person who explained how evolution happens was Charles Darwin with his scientific theory of natural selection. Charles Darwin observed that although individuals in a species shared ...

The story introduces a simulated gravitationless environment—a concept that, while seemingly futuristic, has roots in ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe, first observed in 1998, remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern ...

A scientific gentleman, in a recent conversation, broached to us a theory of taste and smell, which, so far as taste is concerned, is, we think, new. A similar theory in regard to smell has been ...

First, colloquial definitions of the word 'theory' are used to denigrate the place of evolution in the world of scientific knowledge. In science, an idea can be a theory and a fact at the same time.

Scientists across the world form a scientific community. In school, your peer group are other students of your age. For scientists, their peers are other scientists, usually in the same area of ...