**Making a guess, then seeing if you’re right.** Science is, essentially, the practice observing specific cases within a system, using those observations to make a general hypothesis of how the system works, then coming up with testable predictions about things you don’t based on this hypothesis. (note: this is called "[[Inductive vs Deductive|inductive reasoning]]"). If your predictions are consistently accurate, you MIGHT be right. There’s a whole method for how to go about making predictions and the specifics of testing them. It’s named [[The Scientific Method]]. **** # More ## Source - [[A Briefer History of Time]] ## Related - [[Inductive vs Deductive]] - [[The Scientific Method]]