I feel that when the words 'shut up and calculate' were uttered, physics flew off into la-la land, and that without a backing of natural philosophy science beca

I feel that when the words 'shut up and calculate' were uttered, physics flew off into la-la land, and that without a backing of natural philosophy science became an engineering discipline at best and a cargo cult at worst. - It is a non sequitur to go from lack of understanding to saying there is nothing to understand. It would have been more honest to declare that Newton was correct in studying the occult, and that truth is yet to be revealed to our humbled minds. So, "priests" because they don't know about the spirit of inquiry that gave rise to natural philosophy; this sublime tradition that they have misunderstood.