The chasm is that which separates scientific from prescientific culture.
Science is neither a philosophy nor a belief system. It is a combination of mental operations that has become increasingly the habit of educated peoples, a culture of illuminations hit upon by a fortunate turn of history that yielded the most effective way of learning about the real world ever conceived.
The signature achievement of humanity has been to find its way without assistance through a world that proved surprisingly well ordered.
It is not at all natural that "laws of nature" exists, much less that man is able to discover them.
Scientific theories are a product of imagination-informed imagination. They generate hypothesis, disciplined guesses about unexplored topics whose parameters the theories help to define.
Science is the organized, systematic enterprise that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses the knowledge into testable laws and principles.
What distinguishes it from pseudoscience is first repeatability, economy, mensuration. heuristics, consilience.
Complexity is what interests scientists in the end, not simplicity. Reductionism is the way to understand it. The love of complexity without reductionism makes arts: the love of complexity without reductionism makes science.
Science is neither a philosophy nor a belief system. It is a combination of mental operations that has become increasingly the habit of educated peoples, a culture of illuminations hit upon by a fortunate turn of history that yielded the most effective way of learning about the real world ever conceived.
The signature achievement of humanity has been to find its way without assistance through a world that proved surprisingly well ordered.
It is not at all natural that "laws of nature" exists, much less that man is able to discover them.
Scientific theories are a product of imagination-informed imagination. They generate hypothesis, disciplined guesses about unexplored topics whose parameters the theories help to define.
Science is the organized, systematic enterprise that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses the knowledge into testable laws and principles.
What distinguishes it from pseudoscience is first repeatability, economy, mensuration. heuristics, consilience.
Complexity is what interests scientists in the end, not simplicity. Reductionism is the way to understand it. The love of complexity without reductionism makes arts: the love of complexity without reductionism makes science.