Human beings want the world to be more orderly than it is, so they create systems to explain it. Once people draw their conclusions, they are very stubborn about changing their minds. The human mind is too lazy and fearful to keep itself open to constant revising of its opinions. Because the human mind is curious about things that it cannot really know, it settles for creating false laws about how the universe works. People believe what they want to believe is true, rather than really observing the facts of nature.
People also make errors in thinking because the human senses are imperfect.
Some laws of nature are really just part of the human imagination and not a reflection of nature 16. Many people create or adopt a certain school of thought, then they apply it too broadly or refuse to question its validity since they have so much invested in that school of thinking. Some people falter in their thinking because they nit-pick all the subtle differences in a phenomenon or object they are observing while others falter because they draw too many similarities among phenomena or objects that really have important differences. Some people irrationally cling to old ideas while others have an irrational desire for new ideas, which leaves both types of minds out of balance and full of bias towards their favorite school of thought. Scientists need to study form, composition and configuration of nature, instead of taking on just part of these aspects of scientific study.