Today, few would deny the central importance of science to our lives, but not many of the general public would be able to give a good account of what science is. To most, the word probably brings to ...

Around the turn of the 6th century B.C., beside the Aegean Sea in the city of Miletus, the first Greek philosopher concluded that “all is water.” His name was Thales. His pupil, Anaximander, disagreed ...

Reproduce the experiment until there are no discrepancies between observations and theory. It's this method that truly defines science. Superficial, all-encompassing definitions constantly change, but ...

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