The topic being adressed at Uncertain Principles, based on an idea from Michael Nielsen

1) Science is a Process, Not a Collection of Facts

2) Science is an essential human activity.

3) Anyone can do science.

infer some ellipses between those items; Chad goes into some detail about all of them.

Perhaps what science is not is important, too.

– Science doesn’t claim to have all the answers. Good thing, too, since we’d all be doing something else with our lives if everything had been answered.

– Science isn’t about faith (of the religious variety). Related to the above, but it’s important to know that science quantifies certainty and uncertainty. Having some uncertainty is not the same thing as having no certainty at all.

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