I often begin my 'Everyday Science' and 'Natural Science' lectures – now compulsory for students from Arts, Social Sciences, Islamic Learning, Management and Administrative Sciences, Linguistics, etc – with a simple yet profound question: What does it mean to think scientifically if you do not belong to the Faculty of Science? For many of these students, this question becomes the first step in a journey that quietly shifts the way they see the world.

In my experience as both a teacher and a learner, scientific literacy is not a fixed achievement but an evolving orientation. It is less about possessing a storehouse of facts and more about cultivating a way of looking at the world that values evidence, inquiry and intellectual humility. Scientific literacy is a style of thinking that can illuminate all walks of life.

Teaching science to students from non-science faculties is both a challenge and a privilege. It forces me to return again and again to the foundations of knowledge. I find myself stripping away jargon, decoding complex theories and........

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