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The concept of reproducibility is the unsung workhorse of the scientific method: Galileo relied on this concept to develop his law of falling bodies. Without this concept, scientists would be unable to verify the claims of others. Without it, technological products would fail upon second use. Reproducibility is a requirement for a law of nature. ...

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Big Science usually implies, and gets its "big-ness" from, these specific characteristics:

  • Big budgets: No longer required to rely on philanthropy or industry ...
  • Big staffs: Similarly, the number of practitioners of science on any one project grew as well, creating difficulty, and often controversy,...
  • Big machines: Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron at his Radiation Laboratory in particular ushered in an era of massive machines
  • Big laboratories: Because of the increase in cost to do basic science (with the increase of large machines), ...

It has also been stated as involving five Ms: Men, Machines, Media, Money, and Military. ...More...

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Natural Sciences: Astronomy | Physics |Chemistry |Geology | Biology |Medicine |Ecology | Nature |

Social Sciences: Psychology | Sociology |Anthropology | Economics | Political Science | Linguistics

Philosophy: Philosophy|

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Technology: Technology|

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