Re: simplier is mor difficult

[twayburn@juno.com (Thomas L Wayburn)]

On Wed, 08 Oct 1997 22:38:08 -0400 Bob Sciamanda
<sciamanda@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:
> > . . .  Once again it is a matter
> > of pedagogy, not physics. A caloric substance does not exist but we 
> can
> > pretend it does exist and solve many practical problems. The 
> magnetic
> > poles do not exist but we can pretend they do exist and understand 
> many
> > gadgets, such as dc motors and galvanometers. 
>
> We must present our subject in parables for the same reason that the
> great 
> religious founders presented their subject in parables - neither 
> subject
> is  
> literally explicable in human terms.  "We see now darkly, as in a 
> mirror
> ..."
>
> The sooner that both religion and science acknowledge the limited
> "model" basis 
> of our understanding, the more tolerant and understanding we will all
> become, and 
> the more useful will be our models.
> -- 
> Bob Sciamanda				sciamanda@edinboro.edu
> Dept of
Physics				sciamanda@worldnet.att.net
> Edinboro Univ of
PA			http://www.edinboro.edu/~sciamanda/home.html
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Bravo!!!