Strength of Science

“ A strength of science is that it is a communal and self-correcting enterprise. Sooner or later, the errors of one individual are likely to be corrected by someone else.”

Science is a study of nature, of regularly occurring things around us. Generally, scientists make theory based on a finding that is tested over and over again to reach most possible reasoning which could be provided for those natural occurrences. If their temporary theory, or hypothesis, matches the result of experiment, after several tries, then the hypothesis scientists made earlier can be considered as ‘true’ for the time being. But what is important, is not the positive result, for a merely single negative result could break a theory apart, despite how long it has been believed to be right, and despite the thousands or hundreds of thousands positive results has been gained.

Well now, we can not say anything to be absolutely true, then. Because even if we have tried it over and over and over again, and all this time it has goes along with our theory, it could someday be refuted, goes against our theory, and all the previous success will become a mere coincidence. Not to mention a slight change in the observation or a single little failure could change the result dramatically. That is more and more becoming a reason for people to not believe in science.

But every time, every day, as people and scientists test the theories, with steadily increasing positive results, it could be said that the theories have gotten closer to the truth. What’s more, with various individuals doing the experiment under various circumstances, some of them differ greatly with the others, the theory is being corrected and has become more and more accurate. Even if one significant person made a slight mistake, it will be corrected by others doing, not necessarily the same experiment, but one that is associated to the theory.

People percepts things diffferently. Imagine all of the people, not only some particular scientists yielding the same area of knowledge, around the world testing the theories made by scientists and observers. With billions, even trillions of each distinct and separated thoughts testing the theories every day, it would improve more and more. This is, despite the great uncertainties about science, is advantageous to science. It would make science more definite, and, who knows? Someone might find a method to observe without spoiling the object observed in the near future, which would help very much in scientific explorations. We won’t know, with all these minds going all over the globe.