[grey_whiskers]

Not necessarily -- which explains why medicine, psychology, and sociology -- all of which deal with observable effects -- are not "hard" sciences.

The sneer is left to the interested mathematician.

Cheers! ...oh, and Happy New Year.

[NinoFan]

Hey, are you a mathematician?

[js1138]

Not necessarily -- which explains why medicine, psychology, and sociology -- all of which deal with observable effects -- are not "hard" sciences.

Hard and soft are just metaphors describing the level of maturity in the methodologies of a particular field. Methodologies improve as instrumentation improves. There are fields where the instrumentation is still relatively primitive.