Work of Philosophers vs Work of Scientists

From Discovery Education (warning, it’s a PDF).
It’s taken me 31 years and I can barely tell the difference between the two if at all.
The trick is to help students realize that science wasn’t (magically) discovered in the 1600′s by Galileo (as this guide would have us to “believe”).
Nor has science progressed on an upward curve to its current level of awesomeness. Like the rest of humanity, science has had its ups and downs but the myth of a progression of enlightenment is hubric and dangerous.
That’s not to say that we should inject science with flights of philosophical fancy. However, Athens still has a great deal to do with Jerusalem and CERN has a great deal to learn from both.
Otherwise, you end up like them.
