Science, Our Greatest Endeavor
Observation, Hypothesis, and Experiment
Of all endeavors humanity has undertaken no other comes close to being as useful as the disciple of science. It is the single largest contributor to any sort of progress we have made. If you want to help the world help a child learn to love science. Science from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge" involves observation, collection of data under controlled methods, the generation of hypotheses, and the testing of hypotheses under controlled conditions. Simply put observation, hypothesis, and experiment.
A few things we have obtained with the scientific perspective:
- Space travel
- Modern medicine
- Electricity
- The world food supply
- TV, radio, phones
- cell phones
- Computers and the Internet
- Trains, planes, and automobiles
- Clean water