Science Must be Private

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private.

Notes:

Because understanding is a private feeling, and science is an activity of understanding.

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 Reflections of a Physicist
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Bridgman , P. W. (2010-09), Reflections of a Physicist, Kessinger Publishing, Retrieved on 2012-01-28
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