Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
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Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
‘Scientia’, that science thing again – which is the belief that salvation from the tumults and sorrows of
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Numbers, techniques, and predictions are useful for suggesting, testing, confirming, and putting discoveries to use. But there is nothing technical about the content of the discoveries. The universe does not revolve around the Earth. All the matter that surrounds us is just made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. There are one hundred billion
... See moreTraditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. The purpose of this book is to give the answers that are suggested by recent discoveries and theoreti
... See moreLeonard Mlodinow • The Grand Design
Bohr proposed once that the goal of science is not universal truth. Rather, he argued, the modest but relentless goal of science is “the gradual removal of prejudices.” The discovery that the earth revolves around the sun has gradually removed the prejudice that the earth is the center of the universe. The discovery of microbes is gradually removin
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