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Whats the difference between a speculation and a fact? The only thing when people make when they speculate is to assume something or somebody to be true, then ponder about it. There are no boundaries for speculation, you can think and think and think until you seem to reach the edge of your understanding. But strictly speaking, a fact is a fact.......... here you cannot assume things to be going according to your wish.
Science is not just a fact but a collection of deeply interwoven facts which are highly consistent with each other and cannot be separated just like that. You cannot imagine science, you can work it out and to do that, you need some thing called an evidence but absence of evidence is however not evidence of absence. In our daily hectic lives we use several gadgets and technology about which we don't even think of such as things like television......... what lies inside it and how it came out of a long evolution of radios, cathode ray tubes to electron guns. If we do not know about these stuff, we sometimes just shrug saying that thinking about things like these does not influence our lives much. Isn't it?
Wait. It isn't over. what would happen if Columbus did his own intercontinental trading just like that without thinking of any new undiscovered worlds? What would happen if Newton would have just shrugged when he saw an apple falling down? and the answers to these questions changed the world and the finding an evidence to the true facts gave birth to a new culture of understanding things called experimentation, a method which have evoked us to a new age, Renaissance. The society before the age of Galileo was the time of thinkers. As the name suggests, they used to think about nature just without asking one thing 'why'?
'Why?' is the very essence of science and by saying this word we express our curiosity to know something, and curiosity is the gift to human to distinguish fact from speculation and only this guided us through the ages and helped us to understand the nature and how it works.
Whats the difference between a speculation and a fact? The only thing when people make when they speculate is to assume something or somebody to be true, then ponder about it. There are no boundaries for speculation, you can think and think and think until you seem to reach the edge of your understanding. But strictly speaking, a fact is a fact.......... here you cannot assume things to be going according to your wish.
Science is not just a fact but a collection of deeply interwoven facts which are highly consistent with each other and cannot be separated just like that. You cannot imagine science, you can work it out and to do that, you need some thing called an evidence but absence of evidence is however not evidence of absence. In our daily hectic lives we use several gadgets and technology about which we don't even think of such as things like television......... what lies inside it and how it came out of a long evolution of radios, cathode ray tubes to electron guns. If we do not know about these stuff, we sometimes just shrug saying that thinking about things like these does not influence our lives much. Isn't it?
Wait. It isn't over. what would happen if Columbus did his own intercontinental trading just like that without thinking of any new undiscovered worlds? What would happen if Newton would have just shrugged when he saw an apple falling down? and the answers to these questions changed the world and the finding an evidence to the true facts gave birth to a new culture of understanding things called experimentation, a method which have evoked us to a new age, Renaissance. The society before the age of Galileo was the time of thinkers. As the name suggests, they used to think about nature just without asking one thing 'why'?
'Why?' is the very essence of science and by saying this word we express our curiosity to know something, and curiosity is the gift to human to distinguish fact from speculation and only this guided us through the ages and helped us to understand the nature and how it works.
