03 MAR 2014 by ideonexus

 The Success of Science

One of the reasons for its success is that science has built-in, self-correcting machinery at its very heart. It takes account of human fallibility. One of its commandments is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." Too many such arguments have turned out to be painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like anybody else. This independence of science, its unwillingness to pay automatic obeisance to conventional wisdom, makes it dangerous to doctrines less self- critical. ...
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Comes from its built-in self-criticism, its proven results, and the reverence and awe it inspires.

29 MAY 2012 by ideonexus

 Most People Only Care About Making Money from Science

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Folksonomies: science
Folksonomies: science
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They have no love for it, so even untrue results that they can profit from are welcome.