29 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
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.Exploration requires these virtues.
29 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
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
When science stopped looking for truth and focused on how things worked, progress began.