“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Science Isn't Fact

Sorry to break it to the scientistic types--but science is about not having to believe everything you think. Because it's about interpretations of data. A very small number of current physicists now believe in physics at all. Let's not take it from them though--just listen to this older chap.

1 comment:

noel said...

But unfortunately Freeman Dyson makes ignorant and false assumptions about the current state of climate science based on his involvment 30 years ago. It's the right philosophy aimed at the worng target. I wonder if he would have the same views about the urgency of climate change if he was a young mother in Bangladesh rather than an old man ensconced in Princeton.