There are no facts. Every moment is new. We experience everything for the first time. No two moments are identical.
I used this cartoon on the front of school documents prepared for Ofsted. As with the previous drawing on the education sausage machine the cartoon was never commented on.
Too often the teaching of science has been the transmission of ‘facts’ and the learning of knowledge. Science should be the investigation of the wonders of the universe to find out how it operates and celebrate it, learn from it and utilise it.
The more we investigate the greater the mysteries we unfurl. We have accumulated a wealth of knowledge but underlying it all is an even greater mystery.
Science progresses by scientists disbelieving the theories they are presented with, challenging them and coming up with superior theories to test.
Science is creative.
Science is thought-provoking.
Science is fun.
Science is illuminating, expansive and exhilarating.
There are no truths.