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Science in Little Black Boxes

Mike Berger, PhD

Scientists put their facts in the little boxes
and attach colorful bows. Science is so
attractive when packaged so.

The cold hard facts of science you learned
in school are really quite fuzzy. Scientist
must specify the exact conditions under
which they hold. .

We must always remember that facts in
scientific boxes have little to do with truth.
At the very best, those facts and their cousin
mathematics, only answer how things happen.
Science is important to tell us why.

When you drop an object, it falls. You say
that was due to gravity. Gravity however is
just a verbal metaphor that tells us how
things happen. It doesn’t explain why.
It doesn’t say a thing about why two
objects attract. It raises the old conundrum,
what is gravity anyway?

Remove science from its pretty packages,
and it is no longer clean and neat. It’s fuzzy
around the edges. The human mind hates
fuzz. It prefers a rigid conceptual scheme
with hard edges to organize a chaotic world.
The only advantage of this sterile framework
is that it keeps us from going insane.

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