Please name a science (not math, not philosophy) that did NOT start as a bunch of bricks.
We don't have to ignore the real world when we go meta, do we?
Science is a way, a method -- it neither started as, nor is a collection of facts.
The world is full of bricks/facts -- they are everywhere you look and the problem is not finding some, but finding the ones you need. And to figure out which ones you need you require some plans and ideas about how to go about things.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: