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Science is not about big words. It’s not about lab coats

and safety goggles, and it’s definitely not about trying to
make yourself sound fancy. Science is not an end in and of
itself, but a path. It’s a method to help you discover the
underlying order of the world around you and to use those
discoveries to help you predict how things will behave in
the future. The scientific method is based on making
observations, keeping track of those observations, coming
up with hypotheses to explain those observations, and then
performing tests designed to disprove those hypotheses. If,
despite your hardest, most sincere efforts, you can’t manage
to disprove the hypotheses, then you can say with a pretty
good deal of certainty that your hypotheses are true. That is
what science is, and it can be as simple as observing that of
the first three beers you had, the coldest one was the tastiest,
and therefore it’s probably a good idea to chill down the
fourth before you crack it open, or as complex as
determining the gene that decides whether your kid’s eyes
are going to be blue or brown.
Most of us practice science every single day, often
without even knowing it. For instance, when I first got