People talk up how well science explains stuff, and discovers stuff. It’s usually good for explaining stuff and good at discovering stuff, but don’t forget one other thing, what some people consider to be the essential part of science.

Science, generally is an attempt to counterfeit a super power: the ability to see the  future. We take this for granted, but take to seconds to think about this. If you study modern science, you can make, given some time to work it out and a bunch of information, accurately predict what happens when you hit things in certain ways, or set things on fire, or whatever. This is the big project that science is really trying to do. To learn to predict the future based on conditional statements based off past regularities.

Scientists predict the future accurately all the time. They predict what will fall down, what will stay up, what will go where, and how fast, when you hit it with something. That’s impressive. Don’t take that for granted. The more science we have, the better we see the future.