… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result. Ricky Gervais
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The notion that science is constant is a common misconception. While there are many things that stay the same, science is not static. What scientist found out today might be disproved tomorrow, or even later in an hour. But there are many discoveries that are proven over and over again, long after their initial discovery. That’s why the idea of science being constant is a misconception because there are always lessons to be learned from what was discovered yesterday.

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