论科学发现的本质

On the Nature of Scientific Discovery: To Comprehend the World

科学发现的过程是以一定的概念框架为基础,赋予经验事实以存在意义,并将其上升为科学事实的过程。发现科学事实并不等于看见经验事实。本文通过对科学史上科学发现典型案例的分析,证实了上述观点,并进一步指出:科学发现实际上体现了用某个科学观念去理解周围世界的过程。最后本文得出结论:科学发现的本质就是理解世界。

The process of scientific discovery is to use some scientific concept to give the empirical fact meaning and make it become the scientific fact.Discovering a scientific fact isn＇t equivalent to seeing a empirical fact. This essay try to confirm the above idea by analyzing the obvious cases about the scientific discovery in the history of science, furthermore, illustrate that the scientific discovery is to use some scientific concept to understand the universe practically. Finally, this essay reach the conclusion that the nature of scientific discovery is to understand the universe.