What is science? How is it different from other ways of thinking? and what are scientists like? How do they think and what do they mean when they talk about doing science? Science isn't just test tubes or strange apparatus. And it's not just frog dissections or names of plant species. Sciences is way of thinking, a vital, ever-growing way of looking at the world. It is a way of discovering how the world works a very particular way that uses a set of rules devised by scientists to help them also discover their own mistakes. Everyone knows how easy it is to make a mistake about the things you see or hear or perceive in any way. If you don't believe it, look at the two horizontal lines on the previous page. One looks like a two way arrow; the other has the arrow heads inverted. Which one do you think is longer (not including the arrow heads)? Now measure them both. Right: They are exactly the same length. Because it's so easy to go wrong in making observations and dra