She Blinded Me With Science

For your first post in our consideration of Experimental Science as a way of knowing, please transcribe your quotation snippet, then provide a close reading of the text.  Patiently follow your ideas to their ends, and embrace multiplicity of meaning.  For Tuesday, please choose a classmate's post, and respond to her reading with your own analysis, both of the text she provides and of her close reading.  Critique, refute, reinforce, explore.  Only one response per Friday post, please; thus each point will have a counterpoint.