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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's read more
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the
art of the soluble. Both are immensely read more
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the
art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's read more
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself
and before nature.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
