It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. Ann Druyan
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The scientific method is a tool used by scientists to make accurate conclusions. When using this method, the world of science can be examined in an unbiased way. This tool has helped mankind in so many ways, but the most important thing it does is provide us with absolute truth in an absolute world. Science can never give you absolute truth, because the world in which we live is not absolute.

We may be able to see through some things that are not true, but when it comes to things that are real, all that we know is what science tells us. The only way to achieve this absolute truth is to constantly question why something happened and try to find out the truth.

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