28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
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.Because understanding is a private feeling, and science is an activity of understanding.