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"What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” — Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Sc
by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
"What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” — Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)
- bobsmooth 4y agoAristotle was wrong then and he's still wrong now.
- koyanisqatsi 4y agoThat's usually how history works. An abstract definition of progress is the accumulation of cultural knowledge that informs the next generation of past mistakes and errors. I don't know much about Aristotle but I'd guess he was probably wrong about a lot of things given his historical time period.
- bobsmooth 4y agoAristotle basically said the scientific method was useless.