Isn't that, after all, the point of science?
Making sense of it is, in many ways, the point of science.
The whole point of science is to provide a trustworthy guide to the future, not a series of hopeful guesses.
The whole point of science is that you have to be prepared – and delighted – to change your mind in the face of new evidence.
"The whole point of science, the way we know something, is not that I trust Isaac Newton because I think he was a great guy.
"When I hear 'the science is settled,' it's like, I never heard that science actually got to a point where it was — that's the whole point of science, is that you keep asking questions".
The language floats into the unaccountable, the surreal, the untimed ("Monday I can't promise, Tuesday's unpredictable to the point of science fiction"), but the plot follows a tight calendar of formula.
If two people in the same bed can say, at the same time, "I'm freezing!" and, "It's an oven in here," without faith in an objective measurement, the whole point of science is called into question.
This middle group usually needs time to resolve, with correspondence and research: a point of science, for instance, a question of who said what in an interview, a disputed point from colonial history, a complaint about calculations for anything from civil-service pensions to an engineering project.
Bloomfieldians, he said, who had imagined themselves to be bringing scientific rigor to what had previously been a subject for the humanities, were not scientific at all: the point of science was to explain the world, and Bloomfieldians, by confining themselves to the surface ephemera of language, were merely describing it.
