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•Science is always a work in progress, and its conclusions are always tentative. ... In science, the tentativeness of ideas such as the nature of atoms, cells, stars or the history of the Earth refers to the willingness of scientists to modify their ideas as new evidence appears.
•What are the characteristics of science? Objectivity: Scientific knowledge is objective. Verifiability: Science rests upon sense data, i.e., data gathered through our senses—eye, ear, nose, tongue and touch. Ethical Neutrality: Science is ethically neutral. Systematic Exploration.
•Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence. Scientific methodology includes the following: Objective observation: Measurement and data (possibly although not necessarily using mathematics as a tool) Evidence.
•Five key descriptors for the scientific method are: empirical, replicable, provisional, objective and systematic.
