the only fact that we know is that im made of pure awesome



ohh and apperantly jaywood is always right too?

Dr. Evil taught me what is inside the Earth.

Scientifically, we know a lot with a reasonably small degree of uncertainty. With absolute certainty... Well, that's more of a philosophical question than a scientific one, and I don't really care much about philosophy because in the end, I don't find it really gives very useful answers.

That's the most absurd thing I've ever read on VGChartz.

Why what has science really done to benefit humanity in the past 50 years? Sure technology gets better but we would still be hear without it. Only thing science has really helped is making better medicine and even that is estremly limited due to the corrupt nature of the medical business they aren't worried about finding cures only filling their pockets with as much money as they can get. 

I used to come to this site for the sales figures. I now come for threads like this! Lolz all the way!!!

Well, you for one wouldn't be complaining here without science...

Very good point made. I remember a quote from a philosopher Auguste Comte in a book for my Spectroscopy course: "We will never know how to study by means the chemical composition of stars, or their mineralogical structure."

That is one sad conclusion to reach. I'd much rather actually base my work on empirical analysis than sit there twiddling my thumbs assuming we will never know anything. Also scientifically we can not get rid of uncertainty just because of how nature seems to be at a quantum mechanical level. If this is what you meant, then I agree with you OP that we will never know anything with 100% certainty, but we don't necessarily need to. Also, theories can be proven wrong given new measurements/observations, but that is a prospect scientists welcome rather than detest, because it opens up new areas to explore. The best we can do is to keep testing our established theories against newer observations and see if they hold. If not, try and find a new ones that do. This prospect by no means is bad as I mentioned before, in fact this is what makes science exciting: always having the possibility of finding something new. But for the time being, we just have to go with what we have.

I think most scientists use very a high degree of caution when stating "facts" and "theories", or so is the case that I've found inside the scientific circle (from professors/lecturers, etc). A lot of times it tends to be the media who put things in a way that which it was not intended, and I think that is what the problem of the OP is. As for things like "We've never stuck a thermometer inside the sun to know its temperature", the thermometer would melt if you tried. The way to measure the core temperature of the star is to measure the photon flux/radiance it is emitting and use that in conjunction with the blackbody function or something of the kind. I'd suggest you study how exactly the core temperature of the sun is measured or the composition of the earth is known. I think that may clear up some of your questions. You don't necessarily have to see something directly to know about it; you can also know about it from observing its effects.

And I will say once again: There is nothing wrong with not knowing something, as long as we keep trying to know.

"I know that I don't know"
socrates

As I'm not socrates I'm pretty satisfied to know as much as he did.

btw. who cares about how hot the sun is inside and what would change if we find out that the temp. is just 1mio calvin and not 2.7mio?

Einsteins theory fails to explain the gravity balance of 2 objects and tests have shown that several effects are faster than the speed of light or the "ehrenfest paradox " had proven without doubt in 1909 that einsteins relativity is wrong but his theory seems to work well in other fields.wheres the problem?
according to heissenberg you can't observe subatomic experiments without changing the original result,because the
observing is changing the result of the experiment.

before we start to
care about our knowledge we first should find out why most of us even don't know who the most intelligent guy on this planet was(nikola tesla,thank you for electricity,radio,robotics RC)

Talk about a weak argument.