ABSTRACT
Science follows the path of intuitive exploration—an endeavor to find answers to the unknown. Guided by, and founded upon, the use of mathematics, science tests and confirms the conjectures of creative scientific thinking, resulting in a corpus of collective knowledge that has been robustly examined and can be reproduced by a community following the scientific method. This scientific method is thus based on the systematic collection and scrutiny of empirical evidence attained through precise measurement. As such, the means employed to measure phenomena are as important as the methods used for analysis. Choosing an inappropriate mathematical framework to analyze the data or overconstraining the way in which data are gathered or measured can often derail the path of scientific inquiry. Building a core foundational corpus of knowledge to spawn further scientific inquiry and discovery is at the heart of the scientific method.
