Why Bother With Science?

Why Bother with Science?For 40 years I ignored science. I thought science was a set of miscellaneous obscure facts about things like black holes and quarks and ages of places like the universe. All incomprehensible, remote and full of abstract concepts. All things that would be interesting if you were a person who was interested in those things. Which I wasn't.I tried to be, honest. It was just so...boring. The word science conjured images of chemistry experiments and laughing preteen boys using...