• Question: In a nutshell, what do you think science is?

    Asked by fluttershy to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 13 Mar 2012.
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      Robert Thompson answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      the rules that govern the entire universe.

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      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Science is a method. It’s hard to find the truth about the universe, so finding ways for lots of people to compare results, and try the same experiments out for themselves, is really important. That’s the important thing about science for me – not the big geniuses, but all the people working separately and sharing their investigations to move knowledge forward.

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      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Science is about investigating the world in a methodical way. It’s about coming up with ideas and testing them. If the tests support the idea, then we keep it (until something comes along to update the idea), if the test disproves the idea, then we need to figure out what’s really going on. So science is never static, it’s always testing things and building on solid ideas to find out new things.

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      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Science is just a way of thinking and looking at the world. It’s about finding something you don’t understand, thinking up ways to explain it and then carefully testing them to see if they hold true. If not why not? The difficult, but wonderful, thing about good science is that it asks reveals more questions than it answers.

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      James Boone answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Science is basically “How everything works”. The study of science is making predictions about something, and then doing experiments to see if the prediction was right. If it wasn’t, we need to adjust the theory. If it was right, then we need to keep testing!

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