There Are Only Two Ways In Which Humankind Can Produce Knowledge. Through Passive Observation Or Through Active Experiment

“There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

To begin with I am going to write the title the way I see it and I will interpret this on my way. First of all knowledge is the information that we as human beings have studied and also learnt and it is proven to work. We use knowledge vastly every day and with knowledge is the very thing that keeps us surviving until now. Without knowledge we are cannot exist this is because knowledge is very important to use. I do agree to the statement to the fullest extent because true knowledge only can be obtained by doing though passive observation and through active experiment.
My friend once did an experiment to compare gravity on an object that has a heavy mass compared to an object that has a lighter mass. The experiment was proven that the object with the heavier mass falls faster. Now from doing this experiment my friend knew for sure that the object with heavier weight falls much faster compared to the other object. Now from this experiment my friend has achieve “proof “ that the heavier object falls faster. The experiment has caused him to gain a more valuable knowledge she now knows for sure that an object with more mass will fall faster. Also in other subject such as biology for the doctors to know which medicine works best they first needs to compare atleast 3 or more medicines on either a human trial or animal trial. By experimenting on the medicine with these trial to knows which medicine heals faster medicine A B or C the doctors need to use experiments on this on to build the knowledge. Through experimenting on three different subjects the doctor then can make a “valid” knowledge in which medicines heals the most and the fastest. The knowledge made here is by experimenting on the medicine from the experiment we gained the knowledge that the medicine that contains a certain material works better and faster compared to the medicine that contains this and that material. Also on
We cannot perform human experiments because human experiments cannot prove if someone is crazy or not. So people that studies psychology is taught to learn them by their nature and how they deal with things. To classify people that are easily angry we need to see how much a day or in a specific period of time does he get angered or if we want to classify if someone is crazy or not, we need to look at what they have been doing and how do they deal with things. From here on we can later make a knowledge that this person is either crazy or temperament type of person. We tend to classify if a person is a moody person or the person is a person that likes to get angry by the number of times that person tends to have the mood swings. So we unconsciously classify people into the “moody people” the “people that always study” now this is a form of knowledge that is resulted by passive