Science is neither a collection of facts nor merely a process, but rather the combination of both. All at once, science is simultaneously the full suite of knowledge that we gain from observing, measuring, and performing experiments that test the Universe, as well as the process through which we perform those investigations and refine our conclusions based on an ever-increasing set of data.
It's not so much what Hank Green said, but what the Hank Green-hosted SciShow on YouTube put forward. The video is framed as physicists using science to explain the art of knitting, which until now has been innovated simply "through trial and error," and that "how it all works was mostly a mystery." Recently, scientists used a computer model to determine how certain knit stitches will behave, thus being able to predictively pattern knit fabrics for the first time.
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The method has been tremendously successful for science, as we've discovered what makes up the Universe, in what proportion, and what the force laws are that govern physical scales ranging from the subatomic to the cosmological.
'As the USAID was dismantled under the Trump administration, the critiques of development projects that typically come from the left began to mirror some of the administration's rationales.'
One key factor in the U.S. victory in the atomic bomb race was its ability to attract foreign scientists, particularly Jewish ones fleeing Nazi Germany.
