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What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.
What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He read more
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real read more
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the read more
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
