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> The ultimate goal of Earth Sciences is to understand the past, present and future... That is the ultimate goal of all science.

• egeozcan 10y ago
  You are right, science is not bound to Earth and also even "the past, present and future" seem too narrow to me. Science is about understanding anything which we are curious about, and that may include alternative timelines which do not lay neither in the "the past, present nor the future" and also the time itself.
  • cgriswald 10y ago
    Without a way to access those alternate timelines, no science can be done there, because no hypothesis will be falsifiable.
• humanrebar 10y ago
  Well, it's to use evidence and inductive reasoning to objectively prove that you understand those things. You can understand lots of things without being able to prove them or explain their underlying mechanisms.
• sandworm101 10y ago
  But what of the scientists working to improve lives? You dont have to do blue sky research in a shiny tower. Some scientists are in the trenches looking not to discover but to apply discoveries in the real world.
  • jcoffland 10y ago
    Right but all of these discoveries aim to predict the future through modeling. In other words, they seek a model which says that if this and this occur than we can expect this result with some probability.