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You constantly use your collected observations to draw conclusions about things. The more information you collect (the more observations you make), the more solid your conclusion will be. The same process occurs in scientific exploration. Scientists gather information through observations, develop an educated guess (called a hypothesis) about how something works, and then seek to test their educated guess through a series of experiments.

No scientist wants to jump to a false conclusion! Good science is based on many observations and is well-tested through repeated experiments. The most important scientific discoveries are usually based on the educated guesses, experiments, and continued questioning of a large number of scientists.