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TheSOB88 on June 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Taking Cold Showers

Science is the attempt to make sense of the world based on observations and thought.

It does NOT have to happen in a laboratory, or in a study, or in any other Science Realm®.

jrockway on June 10, 2011 [–]

No it's not. From Wikipedia: science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.

The key word is testable. Thought experiments are not science. Measuring stuff to disprove a hypothesis is.

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