But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are. . . not certainly true, this. . . … - Anthony Standen

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Anthony Standen

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are. . . not certainly true, this. . . does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time. . . they. . . act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true. . . . Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.

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We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains. They are very ordinary professional men, and all they know is their own trade, just like all other professional men. There are some geniuses among them, just as there are mental giants in any other field of endeavor.

Brains, Eye, Science, Taken, Trade

If this "critical openminded attitude". . . is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. . . . Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning. "

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Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Devotion, Enjoy, Reason, Reputation, Truth, Worth

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

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The first thing to realize about physics. . . is its extraordinary indirectness. . . . For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions" from the real world, and this is what makes it so scientific. . . . Theoretical physics runs merrily along with these unreal abstractions, but its conclusions are checked, at every possible point, by experiments.

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