On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

Alain De Botton
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For a long time, a lot of people thought that science was a very simple subject. They assumed that all problems could be solved with the proper application of scientific principles. This misconception has been corrected in recent years, but not everyone is willing to admit it. In fact, many continue to believe that science is much more complicated than it really is.

The world is a much larger place than it appears from the balcony of a single scientific laboratory. It’s not just a matter of how many experiments have been conducted, but also the types of questions being asked, and how fruitful those questions have been in finding solutions to real-world problems.

Source: The News: A Users Manual

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