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Science needs to re-learn how to live without so much religion. Observation is expensive, interpretation is cheap.

• 8bitsrule 8y ago
  If you're going to downvote, at least have the courage to voice your objection. I thought that was supposed to be a privilege here, not an opportunity to skulk behind a rock. I'll reply with a similar but lengthier remark from another contributor. Possibly it won't go over your head. ------------- I've thought for some time that the slow down in "fundamental invention" that some have observed since roughly the late 1960s to early 1970s is the result of "scientific fundamentalism" and Skepticism. Look into the backgrounds and thoughts of people like Einstein, Tesla, Engelbart, Turing, Edison, or Schrodinger, and you generally will not find them to be fundamentalist-positivist Skeptics. It seems like the general intellectual trend from roughly 1970 until maybe 2010 or so was the rise of fundamentalism of every kind, both religious and secular... - (api; 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288033)