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Problem. Hypothesis. Variables. Experiments. Results. Conclusion. Boom, you're done. Your results don't have to prove your hypothesis true -- they rarely do. Your experiment could have been a complete failure -- you forgot to control for an important variable; you discovered you were asking the wrong question; you realize that you cannot extrapolate anything from your data; etc. So what? Happens in chemistry labs around the world every single day. You haven't failed to apply science. You've learned something. You plug the holes, change your models, and you try again.

The newest issue of Wired -- guest edited by J.J. Abrams and dedicated to the idea of "mystery" -- leads with an excellent piece by Brian Greene, a physicist and author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos. Greene writes (sorry, it's not online yet...):

To the vast majority, science is solely about answers -- the material that's sandwiched between the covers of their textbooks. It's understandable. For the most part, we teach science as if it were a technical trade: Learn these facts about cells. Memorize these equations describing motion. Balance these reactions that underlie oxidation. And then demonstrate competence by passing an exam. With this lopsided focus on the end points of research, the scientific explorations themselves receive the most minimal attention.

But science is the journey. Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. It is the ultimate adventure. [...] Einstein captured it best when he wrote, "the years of anxious searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express." That's what science is about"

Who would dare preclude the social sciences from this quest? What nobler or more righteous use of the scientific method than to better understand humans, how we interact with each other politically, how we construct our institutions, how we achieve efficiencies and better serve our societies' needs... or how we manipulate these systems to exploit others and consolidate absolute power? In these times of partisan polarization, global poverty and hunger, financial uncertainty, and environmental meltdown, we need every model of analysis we can get our hands on.

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