Wherever he is perched, Dr. Bialek seeks to train the tools of physics on biology, a discipline that historically has favored research and experimentation over theory and computation, and that sometimes can seem so number-averse you'd think it was an they were extensions of the humanities department.
Robustness may be a key to understanding cellular complexity, elucidating design principles, and fostering closer interactions between experimentation and theory.
Each of these claims has prompted a long trail of experimentation and theory construction, and all remain controversial (see, for example, the discussion in Menn et al. 2003).
Kuo's research process can be divided into three stages: theoretical assumption, animal experimentation and theory formation (Fig. 3) (Gottlieb, 1972).
These groups operate in an emerging field of development economics that prizes rigorous experimentation over theory.
This opens a future avenue for new manipulative experimentation and theory.
The currently available methods (e.g., empirical correlations, experimentation, simple theories, computations based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations) cannot provide the required information at an adequate level of accuracy for crystallizers of non-standard design.
Purposefully mixed together on the transistor project were physicists, metallurgists and electrical engineers; side by side were specialists in theory, experimentation and manufacturing.
And with recent advances in laser and matter wave technology, the science is finally at the stage at which experimentation can verify theory.
In line with the idea that the epistemic authority of science relies primarily on the objectivity of scientific reasoning, we focus on the role of objectivity in scientific experimentation, inference and theory choice.
