5 November

I think the success of science is down to one thing mostly - it focuses on properties, not essences. Rather than try to define what something is, it defines how it relates to other things - its properties. Einstein of course made relation famous with his relativity, but all modern science is about relations. The numbers on the Periodic Table are properties, weights for example. The truth of something is always contextual, and relative, outside science as well as inside it. Anybody who says otherwise is trying to steal your money.