Why Do Scientists Formulate Principles

question 63

Multiple Choice

Why do scientists formulate principles?

• A) to describe a widely applicable and generally accepted explanation for natural phenomena
• B) to explain something that cannot be observed or measured by scientific procedures
• C) to make a statement or mathematical formula that always succeeds in generalizing data and observations about data without necessarily offering an explanation
• D) to explain a problem that accounts for existing data and predict additional phenomena that should exist

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