The whole reason science works is that we start by assuming what our eyes tell us is true, and then come up with models to explain that. Edit: plato believed t

The whole reason science works is that we start by assuming what our eyes tell us is true, and then come up with models to explain that. Edit: plato believed the nature of reality could be discerned with pure reason. He was wrong. Science also works only because it always assumes that its models may be wrong.