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Re: Kelvin quote



Here's a contemporary quote:

"Members of our profession [physicists] - and particularly those who
have responsibility for hiring and for funding research - are infected
with "Horganism," the belief that the end of science (or at least of
our science) is at hand, and all that is left to do is to grub away at
Kuhnian "normal science" following the accepted paradigms. They
believe that there are no more scientific revolutions possible, and
that we are now in pursuit of nothing but the next decimal place."
-Dr. Philip Anderson, Physics Today, Sept. 1999


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