I won't say that things like stoicism or humanism never worked. But they never got to the level of strict logical or experimental verifiability. Physics may be

I won't say that things like stoicism or humanism never worked. But they never got to the level of strict logical or experimental verifiability. Physics may be hard science, but the very notion of hard science, hypotheses, demand to replicate, demand to be able to falsify, etc, are all philosophy.