A theory that explains everything and forbids nothing is not scientific: that is the standard astrology fails and physics passes

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The map is not the territory: every model is a simplification and forgetting that is how smart people make dumb calls 'Settled science' is a journalist's phrase; scientists speak in confidence intervals and provisional models What makes something scientific is not the lab coat but falsifiability — Popper's line between science and everything else The scientific method is itself a piece of knowledge — one that had to be invented and argued over and slowly adopted Newton was wrong about gravity at cosmic scales and still builds reliable bridges — fallible knowledge can be dependable knowledge Trial and error gets a bad name yet most of what humanity knows about farming and fermentation and metal came from it Peer review is slow and flawed yet it is why scientific knowledge is more than one clever person's opinion Field observation launched half of biology before any lab existed — Darwin barely ran experiments Reproducibility crisis: if a third of published findings fail replication then what exactly counts as scientific knowledge? Elegant nonsense: pure theory that never touches reality can stay self-consistent and still be wrong

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