You have a point. But I think it depends on whether we take science as the body of knowledge or the process.
I think as a process it corrects our understanding.
As for discovering something NEW, no. It is already there. But the process of uncovering it and working out the HOW changes our understanding.
I didn't sleep enough last night. I'm not sure I'm making sense.
Help! Let's have some of the very clear thinkers come up with a title. (Sylas, Mark, Crash, Bill, Eta, .... almost everyone else
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