….is an oxymoron. Science provides no proof. Proof has nothing to do with science. It disappoints me that so many people still don’t understand this.
Science is a method of enquiry. It generates explanation and theory, not proof. No theory is ever proven, but either supported or refuted by observed data. That there is always doubt, always an opportunity to revise and reassess, is science’s greatest strength and why it has shown itself so spectacularly successful.
Scientific Proof
06 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in oxymoron, science, Uncategorized
I agree 100%!
Thanks Diana
things that make you go hmmm….
You’re awfully smart..you realize that, right? Glad you’re writing again.
I’m smart enough to realise how dumb I am. I guess that’s smarter than most folk!
thanks Susannah
So true, but like you’ve mentioned, so many of us tend to forget this.
Even professional scientists loose sight of the fundamentals of their trade from time to time, so the rest of us may be forgiven, I think.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Many thanks.