‘Science is a special kind of faith—a belief before evidence that the previous generation’s “truths” are, at best, half-truths, with half-lives, which will one day pass away and make room for the next generation of even more useful half-truths.
Science is not about getting things right. It’s about getting things wrong, and wrong, and wrong again, and from this cavalcade of wrongnesses overturned, a useful thing sometimes emerges.’
This reaffirms the importance of science and technology today and why the cuts to grants recently are so devastating…
‘Science is a special kind of faith—a belief before evidence that the previous generation’s “truths” are, at best, half-truths, with half-lives, which will one day pass away and make room for the next generation of even more useful half-truths.
Science is not about getting things right. It’s about getting things wrong, and wrong, and wrong again, and from this cavalcade of wrongnesses overturned, a useful thing sometimes emerges.’
This reaffirms the importance of science and technology today and why the cuts to grants recently are so devastating…