We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. He that will know what shall be must consider what hath been. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Nam et ipsa scientia postestas est. For knowledge itself is power.
Science is organized knowledge.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Susan Brown has been answering readers' questions about science in everyday life since 1996. She is a microbiologist and immunochemist by training and profession, who retired as manager of biological sciences for a pharmaceutical company that is the largest provider of human vaccines in the United States. Readers' questions are humorous and entertaining, sometimes strange and unusual, always interesting.