But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communica… - Anthony Standen
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communica…
- Anthony Standen
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the … - Anthony Standen
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the …
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has… - Anthony Standen
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has…
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justif… - Anthony Standen
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justif…
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains… - Anthony Standen
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains…
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, … - Anthony Standen
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, …
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes… - Anthony Standen
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes…
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that th… - Anthony Standen
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that th…
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper… - Anthony Standen
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper…
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