Suddenly we are talking about “what is science” on scienceblogs.com. Well, according to some of our commenters science is a bunch of stuff that many of us science bloggers never talk about! Which to some extent is certainly true. But we are not a textbook! We are blogger-beings!<\/p>\n
This discussion is going on in one form or another here<\/a> and here<\/a>. I have a small number of bullet points to add.<\/p>\n 2) If you think about science too much, it begins to become unscientific. It is important to think about science, but one has to know when to stop.<\/p>\n 3) The rational explanation is at the core of scientific endeavor. Any enterprise that favors the more rational over the less rational is intrinsically scientific.<\/p>\n 4) The Scientific Method, as one famous scientist said, is what we do when we don’t have any good ideas. Observation itself is a creative process, and explanation is even more so. This is left out of most dry descriptions of “the circle of science.” But we know it is there.<\/p>\n 5) Science is utterly apolitical. Which, in turn, makes science a powerful political tool. Be careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Suddenly we are talking about “what is science” on scienceblogs.com. Well, according to some of our commenters science is a bunch of stuff that many of us science bloggers never talk about! Which to some extent is certainly true. But we are not a textbook! We are blogger-beings! This discussion is going on in one … Continue reading What is science?<\/span>
\n1) Science is about material truth. As such, science recognizes the fallacy of truth and at the same time tirelessly works towards ‘knowing’ the truth.<\/p>\n