Adventures in Science

It is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when in point of practice it is anything but. The ultimate linchpin in science is decided not by how we go about doing it but about how well our hunches observations and results tally with the universe we observe and in turn how such intellectual lurches compare and contrast with other competing stratagems in terms of yielding more not less information. The very word science derived from the Latin scire (see the Oxford English Dictionary for more on its etymology) is rather open ended and simply means knowledge.