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History and Nature of Science: Science as a human endeavor Grades K-4, page 141 Although men and women using scientific inquiry have learned much about
the objects, events, and phenomena in nature, much more remains to be understood.
Science will never be finished.
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Benchmark 1A The Nature of Science: The
Scientific World View
Grades 9-12, page 8
No matter how well one theory fits observations, a new theory might
fit them just as well or better, or might fit a wider range of observations.
In science, the testing, revising, and occasional discarding of theories,
new and old, never ends. This ongoing process leads to an increasingly
better understanding of how things work in the world but not to absolute
truth. Evidence for the value of this approach is given by the improving
ability of scientists to offer reliable explanations and make accurate
predictions.