Why Is Science SO Important?

Science has been vastly underrated. It is what separates us from the primitive, ignorant people we were centuries ago - people that thought weather was controlled by multiple gods and who simply relied on ineffective prayer to cure the diseased. It's a huge part of common sense as well. As children, humans learn to cope with gravity - whether the learning experience comes from a nasty fall or a game of catch. An entire other class of science is technology. How have we developed from whalebone tools to digital objects? How have we gone from 'hoofing it' to using airplanes and rockets?…