Principle 5: We are all scientists at heart
You may not feel this one applies to you but, as we have seen, we are all theory-building creatures. We can’t help ourselves. We are constantly generating hypotheses about ourselves and the world, often even without being aware that we are doing so.
Einstein and you… more in common than you might think?
Science is not all Higgs Bosons and Bunsen burners; more fundamentally it is a way of knowing things. Furthermore it is a way of knowing that has built-in quality assurance standards. In science a good theory or hypothesis has to meet at least two criteria:
- it has to be consistent with all the available ...
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