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I was going to suggest observation, too.

I think it's underrated. No one can come up with good questions, one 
of the main structural components of science, without first 
observing. I think students  should be encouraged to spend more time 
observing and wondering why things are the way they are.

To oversimplify, experiment is nothing without why and why is nothing 
without experiment.

Jennie Dusheck
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At 3:16 PM -0400 6/28/11, Alexander F Wall wrote:
>I feel science is better described as the process of observation, 
>quantification, evaluation, and prediction. These steps include the 
>themes everyone has mentioned. What is this for?
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>Alex Wall
>Assistant to the Associate Director for Outreach
>Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth
>1259 Trumansburg Rd.
>Ithaca, NY 14850
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