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I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in
by apo 8y ago
I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, the writer told me he was majoring in English literature, but felt he needed to teach me science. (I sighed a bit, for I knew very few English Lit majors who are equipped to teach me science, but I am very aware of the vast state of my ignorance and I am prepared to learn as much as I can from anyone, so I read on.)
Here Asimov reveals the scientist's secret weapons:
- The source of an idea doesn't matter, only the idea itself.
- It's ok, even expected, to not know everything.
- hermitdev 8y agoI think it's worth noting, too, that science is very skeptical of itself. To my knowledge, there's only 3 accepted laws: those of thermodynamics. Science is not about necessarily finding the perfect explanation, but finding a more perfect explanation. Always speculating, testing, refining, building on the shoulders of the giants that have come before us. I doubt within my lifetime, or even in anyone's lifetime, that we will truly have a Grand Universal Theory that fits 100% of the time. But, I have no doubt that we'll keeping making steps to a more perfect explanation. Sometimes it will be small steps, others huge leaps, but there will be progress, but no completion; at least that's my current thought.