Isn't science just a bunch of guess work?

Question

technically.....?

Answer 1

...edjucated guesswork.

Science is interested in everything you can see, measure, deduct and prove.

So for example, science is extremely interested in the exact value of the cosmological constant.

Science is completely not interested in God, because he can not be proved, witnessed or measured.
Science is interested in the effect of religion on people, of course, because that can be measured again.

So it's not guesswork. It's very, very educated guesswork.
Keep one thing in mind: A scientist is excited when his theories are proved correct. This is human.
But... a scientist is equally excited when his theories are proved wrong - because that means he is going to discover something new!
This is a fundamental difference between scientists and people; people in general don't like to be told they're wrong.
I think that's one thing that people can learn from scientists; always assume that you don't know everything, and that you might be wrong.

Answer 2

Technically, Theory is a bunch of guesswork that has to be tested repeatedly to meet known measurements and standards before it becomes scientific fact. This question is under the science/math heading so that doesn't include religion.

Answer 3

Science is the proof through the process of duplication and the elimination of any contradiction. If the water turns blue when azurite is added that is a proof. All chemical formulas with H are acids, this is a proof. Technically!
H 2 O dissolves rock.
Copper turns water Blue. even if it looks green

Answer 4

Actually i was tempted to respond sarcastically to this one, but the core of the Scientific Method IS the hypothesis...which is just that..."a good guess". Now, science doesn't STOP there. There's, like others have said, experimentation and observation and data collection...some guesses make their way to becoming theories or laws....others are rejected as false. So while it starts OUT as guesswork, that is certainly not what it's limited to.

Answer 5

Well, if you look at that question scientifically i guess there is no way to know anything with absolute certainty but science gives you the best and most reliable answers to the question of how everything in the world works. I guess.

Answer 6

Science is based ENTIRELY on observations, followed by "guesswork", followed by a system of testing the veracity of those "guesses", and careful amendment of them if they don't work perfectly. By repeated iterations of this process, we come ever closer to "knowing" things...

So yes, science is guesswork, but there is no viable alternative! How else will you get a plane to fly? Or treat a cancer?

Answer 7

it is not !!!

instead your question seems to be a guess in itself . if you go in deep study of various scientific discoveries , you will find that they do have REASONS behind them . let's take a recent example . pluto is not being considered a planet any more . why ? because it belongs to the kuper belt ; and if we want to take it as a planet , then we will have take many others as planets of our solar system too .

if you still disagree dude , then i must tell you that reaching moon wouldn't have been possible by a couple of guesses only !!!!

Answer 8

No. It's a bunch of experiments and math to come up with the best explanation for what's going on.

Answer 9

I would say it is too! I never thought of that, basically yeah it is, because if you think about it most of the scientist guessed. If I were to ask one of the high school science teachers they would say it was like an EDUCATIONAL Guess! lol! But, I would say so. ♥

Answer 10

There is a lot in what you say. Guess work followed up with solid mathematics and in physics, experiments to evaluate the guess.