Appendix II1 The Scientific Method The Scientific Method is based solidly on definite rules, but is none the less, like the American Way of Life, something that must be lived to be fully understood. The United States has a Constitution, but the American Way of Life is far more than that; so the Scientific Method […]
Bell Telephone Research Laboratories
Lecture: Cause and Effect–Education, Unknowing and Unwilling Effect
The United States government today is degree happy, totally degree happy; where’s a matter of fact up at “Ma Bell” the big IT&T laboratories, it’s very amusing you see somebody there and oh, he’s designing a strategy machine that is going to figure out all the strategy for the admirals in the navy, and you […]
Lecture: Be, Do, Have Straightwire
The scientific method which is used today was discussed with the engineers at Bell Laboratories — Ma Bell — at lunch hours, until they had finally decided what they were doing. Here we let somebody decide what he was doing instead of deciding what was so. And we found out that the scientific method, in […]
Lecture: Dianetics The Modern Miracle (1)
In the twenties I was fortunate enough to know Commander Thompson of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. He was a colorful man; he was very poised, was very traveled; he was curious in half a hundred sciences. And the United States Navy, having heard of the work of Freud, naturally, took ahold […]