Science, we generally are told, is a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data, that it's rule-based, that scientists use this thing called the scientific method and we've been doing this for 14 generations or so now, and the scientific method is a set of rules for getting hard, cold facts out of the data.
我们对科学的普遍认识是 它是一个 用来了解世界、 获得事实和数据的非常有序有理的机制。 就是说科学是以各种原理为基础的。 这些原理被称为科学方法。 我们这样做科学研究已经大约14个世代了， 科研方法被认为是一系列 用来从数据中得到事实真相的准则。