What we currently call “science” isn’t the best method for uncovering nature’s secrets; it’s just the first set of methods we’ve collected that wasn’t totally useless like personal anecdote and authority generally are.
Prior methods weren’t completely useless. Humans went from hunter-gatherers to civilization without the scientific method or a general notion of science. It is probably more fair to say that science was just much better than all previous methods.
Prior methods weren’t completely useless. Humans went from hunter-gatherers to civilization without the scientific method or a general notion of science. It is probably more fair to say that science was just much better than all previous methods.