It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction. Science represents mankind's deepest aspirations - aspirations to power, to wealth, to the satisfaction of sheer animal lusts. The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method .
Scientists first formulate hypotheses , or predictions, about nature.
Then they perform experiments to test their hypotheses. There are two forms of scientific method, the inductive and the deductive . Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science. Indeed, today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of .