"Also, just to be clear, while you wouldn't necessarily get paid very much for it except in very special cases, there is such a thing as just running out and trying a bunch of stuff that you didn't preregister and aren't going to be especially careful about analyzing if you even report the results at all.  That's 'science', the individual kind, even if it's not 'SCIENCE!' the project of all Civilization."

"That's, uh, basically what I did the previous day when I was experimenting on boiling acid and having it explode a lot, I wasn't exactly trying to lay a firm foundation for future Golarion Science!, just poking around rapidly and trying to get a handle on how things worked with magic in the mix."

"This, too, is something of a dath ilani stereotype.  It sometimes involves a stereotypical Ione person who tries to prevent the maniacal-scientist from accidentally killing himself.  They are even, often, a boy and a girl respectively, and it is not unknown for them to end up romantically involved.  Though I have to ask again, do I really need one of those when I already have several girlfriends and my new universe comes neatly equipped with healing and resurrection spells?"

"Also, just to be clear, while you wouldn't necessarily get paid very much for it except in very special cases, there is such a thing as just running out and trying a bunch of stuff that you didn't preregister and aren't going to be especially careful about analyzing if you even report the results at all.  That's definitely still 'science', the individual kind, even if it's not 'SCIENCE!' the project of all Civilization."

"That's, uh, basically what I did the previous day when I was experimenting on boiling acid and having it explode a lot, I wasn't exactly trying to lay a firm foundation for future Golarion Science!, just poking around rapidly and trying to get a handle on how 'chemistry' worked with magic in the mix."

"This, too, is something of a dath ilani stereotype.  It sometimes involves a stereotypical Ione person who tries to prevent the maniacal-scientist from accidentally killing himself.  They are even, often, a boy and a girl respectively, and it is not unknown for them to end up romantically involved.  Though I have to ask again, do I really need one of those when I already have several girlfriends and my new universe comes neatly equipped with healing and resurrection spells?"

"Also, just to be clear, while you wouldn't necessarily get paid very much for it except in very special cases, there is such a thing as just running out and trying a bunch of stuff that you didn't preregister and aren't going to be especially careful about analyzing if you even report the results at all.  That's definitely still 'science', the individual kind, even if it's not 'SCIENCE!' the project of all Civilization.  It is not considered foolish to do noncareful nonrigorous experiments to figure out which careful rigorous experiments to do, before you spend a lot of effort on writing up something to preregister."

"That's, uh, basically what I did the previous day when I was experimenting on boiling acid and having it explode a lot.  I wasn't exactly trying to lay a firm foundation for future Golarion Science!, just poking around rapidly and trying to get a handle on how 'chemistry' worked with magic in the mix."

"This, too, is something of a dath ilani stereotype.  It sometimes involves a stereotypical Ione person who tries to prevent the maniacal-scientist from accidentally killing himself.  They are even, often, a boy and a girl respectively, and it is not unknown for them to end up romantically involved.  Though I have to ask again, do I really need one of those when I already have several girlfriends and my new universe comes neatly equipped with healing and resurrection spells?"

"Also, just to be clear, while you wouldn't necessarily get paid very much for it except in very special cases, there is such a thing as just running out and trying a bunch of stuff that you didn't preregister and aren't going to be especially careful about analyzing if you even report the results at all.  That's definitely still 'science', the individual kind, even if it's not 'SCIENCE!' the project of all Civilization.  It is not considered foolish to do noncareful nonrigorous experiments to figure out which careful rigorous experiments to do, before you spend a lot of effort on writing up something to preregister."

"That's, uh, basically what I did the previous day when I was experimenting on boiling acid and having it explode a lot.  I wasn't exactly trying to lay a firm foundation for future Golarion Science!, just poking around rapidly and trying to get a handle on how 'chemistry' worked with magic in the mix."

"This, too, is something of a dath ilani stereotype.  Stereotypically, it sometimes involves an Ione-like person who tries to prevent the maniacal-scientist from accidentally killing himself.  They are even, often, a girl and a boy respectively, and it is not unknown for them to end up romantically involved.  Though I have to ask again, do I really need one of those when I already have several girlfriends and my new universe comes neatly equipped with healing and resurrection spells?"