Science is looking closely at all sorts of things you probably don’t know about! — Lily Grosh
A friend shared this little nugget of wisdom from her daughter and I loved it. Sure, it’s not as complete a definition as Francis Bacon or Karl Popper might offer. Nevertheless, it captures an essential feature of science too easily overlooked. We say science deals with facts and proofs, we hear how science is right and just about everything else is wrong, and we get the impression science works exclusively with the known and the certain. While we have accumulated a body of knowledge through scientific investigation, the unknown plays a big part in what scientists do all day.
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