Bottom Up Thinkers Try To Start From Experience And Move From Experience To Understanding. They Don't Start With Certain General Principles They Think Beforehand Are Likely To Be True; They Just Hope To Find Out What Reality Is Like.

-John Polkinghorne

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Bottom Up Thinkers Try To Start From

John Polkinghorne

Bottom Up Thinkers Try To Start From Experience And Move From Experience To Understanding. They Don't Start With Certain General Principles They Think Beforehand Are Likely To Be True; They Just Hope To Find Out What Reality Is Like.

Topic

Moving

Reality

Thinking

The Test Of A Theory Is Its Ability To Cope With All The Relevant Phenomena, Not Its A Priori 'reasonableness'. The Latter Would Have Proved A Poor Guide In The Development Of Science, Which Often Makes Progress By Its Encounter With The Totally Unexpected And Initially Extremely Puzzling.

Science

Progress

Encounters