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According to two of the prominent authors of work on this subject, critical thinking is a “process in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structure inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them” (Paul & Elder, 2004, p. 1). The focus is on the structure of thinking rather than the conclusions that you draw about life. There is no liberal or conservative bias in critical thinking; so if you want a structure that supports your bias, you will not find it in critical thinking.

You probably have already concluded that there is an inherent compatibility between the concept of critical thinking and the concept of science. According to Eileen Gambrill (2015),

Critical thinking and science go hand in hand. In both, there is an openness—even an eagerness—to learn by discovering that one has been wrong, a desire to accurately understand, present, and learn from other viewpoints, a deep curiosity about the world, and a willingness to say “I was wrong.” (p. xvi)