Consider the following comments on science.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
Richard Feynman
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Anonymous
Science tells us what we can do, never whether we should.
Every certainty science offers is provisional, which is precisely why we should trust it.
Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.
A way into this prompt
A defensible thesis is that science is humanity's best method for learning what is true while being a poor guide for deciding what is good. Open by honouring the achievement, that the method of testing and discarding ideas has cured diseases and overturned comfortable error. Then complicate it: knowing how to split an atom or edit a gene tells us nothing about whether we ought to, so science needs ethics as a partner, not a rival. A strong third move treats the provisional nature of science as a feature, contrasting honest uncertainty with the false confidence of dogma. Caution: resist the lazy relativism that, because science can be wrong, treats every opinion as equally valid.