How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

by Ryan North

The best case you can hope for by using the scientific method is a theory that happens to fit the facts as you understand them so far: science gives you an explanation, but you can never say with absolute certainty that it’s the correct one.

Note that the scientific method requires you to keep an open mind and be willing—at any time—to discard a theory that no longer fits the facts.

Scientists are often seen as turbonerds, but the philosophical foundations of science are actually those of pure punk-rock anarchy: never respect authority, never take anyone’s word on anything, and test all the things you think you know to confirm or deny them for yourself.