Excerpt:
"To explain is to connect cause and effect. Many people confuse explanation and description. “Science,” they assert, “describes.” This cannot be true. Description is trivial; a toddler can describe. Naming things is also part of a description; yet dogs and cats recognize their own names and the names of many other household objects. Are toddlers and pets doing science whenever they describe things? Of course not.

Science is more serious than this. Distinguishing between the cause and effect is no small task."