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Re: What makes science powerful?



I have no idea what you mean by "science". The method of sceptical
inquiry seems to be productive in every aspect of life.


On Wed, 7 May 2003, cliff parker wrote:

Today on a test I asked a question and I can already imagine the disc=
ussion, comments and complaints that I will hear tomorrow. The quest=
ion is about a mile wide and perhaps a mile deep. I was wondering if=
a few of my eloquent collogues would be willing to give your best cr=
ack at a succinct answer. So that I might share the ideas of severa=
l with my class tomorrow. The question was...

"What makes science such a powerful tool as we try to understand the =
world around us?


Cliff Parker

Never express yourself more clearly than you can think. Niels Bohr=
=20


--
"What did Barrow's lectures contain? Bourbaki writes with some
scorn that in his book in a hundred pages of the text there are about 180
drawings. (Concerning Bourbaki's books it can be said that in a thousand
pages there is not one drawing, and it is not at all clear which is
worse.)"
V. I. Arnol'd in
Huygens & Barrow, Newton & Hooke