“The facts are dead, long live the facts. It seems simple enough: The job of science is to observe, describe, and explain the natural world through hypothesis and experimentation. A scientist will say, “I think this explanation is the reason for this observation, and I propose this experiment to test it.” But the statement doesn’t begin to convey the job at hand. Theories, hypotheses, laws, the scientific method — even facts themselves — dangle from the natural sciences like so many tree branches. How do the various parts fit together?”

from Feb07 Edutopia