Niels Bohr: Knowledge and Practice of Science

The task of science is both to extend our experience and reduce it to order, and this
task represents various aspects, inseparably connected with each other. Only by
experience itself do we come to recognize those laws which grant us a
comprehensive view of the diversity of phenomena. As our knowledge becomes
wider we must always be prepared, therefore, to expect alterations in the points of
view best suited for the ordering of our experience.
--Niels Bohr

Bohr describes scientific knowledge as including the experience itself and that scientific practices extend our experiences of the natural world to order, or to understanding and changing our points of view.  School science is not often the experience described by Bohr, but has been distilled by textbooks that rarely present the experiences of science.  Textbooks give the conclusions of the studies of different scientist without showing their data, or giving students a chance to view or hear their arguments.  The data collection and pattern-finding of scientists is rarely explored, and often reduced to a series of explanations, graphs, charts, and maps.  The textbook study of science diverges completely from the experience of scientists' science.