Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.
If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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