In the field of education, many supporters of marginalized and emergent methods of inquiry drew comfort during the post‐Kuhnian reaction to positivism from physics (Queen of the sciences) and her quantum mechanics mysteries. Stories about cats suspended in states of uncertain existence, and other improbabilities, seemed to encourage and support those of a subjectivist orientation. Later attempts to “subvert the dominant paradigm” involved interdisciplinary applications of chaos mathematics. It is suggested that if there are lessons to be learned from “real” science about what we should be doing, then let us be instructed by the evolutionary biologists or the natural scientists and by their understanding of explanation as “just history.”