Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Pagels , Heinz R. (2009-05-26), Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time, Simon & Schuster, Retrieved on 2011-05-29
Folksonomies: physics Memes
29 MAY 2011
Tolerating Complexity Lead to Science Making Progress
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.Folksonomies: scientific progress
Folksonomies: scientific progress
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notesWhen science stopped looking for truth and focused on how things worked, progress began.
29 MAY 2011
Explorers Tolerate Complexity and Welcome Contradiction
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration. 1 notes
notesExploration requires these virtues.
