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Student "definition" of science



I gave my Interdisciplinary Science students the definition from John
Ziman, "Science is the search for the widest possible consensus among
competent researchers" as part of a writing assignment. One of the
students began her paper with "Science is the search for the _wildest_
possible consensus...".

Michael Burns-Kaurin
Spelman College