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Even if we wanted to finance pure science unaffected by political, economic or religious interests, it would probably be impossible. Our resources are limited, after all.

A maioria dos esforços científicos prossegue testando hipóteses imperfeitamente estabelecidas contra resultados da observação um pouco melhorados.

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.

A ciência depende de um ceticismo organizado, isto é, de uma dúvida contínua e metódica. Poucos de nós duvidamos de nossas próprias conclusões, assim a ciência adota sua abordagem cética recompensando aqueles que duvidam das conclusões de outros.

The word, admittedly,

It seems that, from the perspective of mathematical science, there exist two natural domains. The first is the physical domain of particles, fields, and universal laws, with an associated search for elegant theories that apply everywhere in the known universe. Here, science has made great strides. The second domain is that of complex phenomena. The

Modern science has no dogma. Yet it has a common core of research methods, which are all based on collecting empirical observations – those we can observe with at least one of our senses – and putting them together with the help of mathematical tools.