科学实验是人类在长期的认识实践中建立和发展起来的一种科学研究方法。它作为认识事物的一种重要手段,其功能作用是多方面的。 首先,科学实验在全部自然科学和技术科学中被广泛地用作认识真理和证明真理的手段。关于人类知识的真理性问题,是认识论中最重要的问题之一。检验人类知识与客观是否相符,实践是最重要的途径。实践检验真理可通过多种形式,实验就是其中的一种。例如,在自由落体运动规律被科学地描述之前大约两千年的时间里,人们一直认为“物体下 Scientific experiment is a kind of scientific research method established and developed by human in long-term cognition and practice. As an important means of understanding things, its function and function are manifold. First of all, scientific experiments are widely used in all sciences of natural science and technology as a means of understanding truth and proving truth. The truth about human knowledge is one of the most important issues in epistemology. To test whether human knowledge conforms to the objective, practice is the most important way. Practice testing truth can take many forms, experiment is one of them. For example, about two thousand years before the law of free-fall motion was scientifically described, one always thought that "under the object