May 29, 2025
Experience and Science

Science is not based on simple experience, otherwise anyone could be a scientist. Scientific discovery is still an original interpretation that very few are able to achieve. However, its validity then depends on experience, which can be verified by everyone (who is capable of doing so). Scientific theories, therefore, are valid for everyone (every scientist), at least at a certain stage of experimentation, whereas for philosophical (religious, ethical, political, aesthetic) theories, there is no unanimity but rather a plurality of opinions.
In this sense, I would say that Galileo’s discoveries are scientific and not philosophical, because no one, after so many experiments, still doubts heliocentrism or the law of falling bodies, even though they seem to contradict common experience.