THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE
FIGURE 1.6 Scientific understanding of nature grows out of a formal process that draws as much from intuition and creativity as it does from established procedure. Science is sometimes equated with the body of knowledge it produces. The more similar findings accumulate for a particular question, the less uncertainty there is regarding the question. However, in science, all findings or questions are open to further investigation, which is why scientists never say that something has been “proven.”