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Line 1: + − *there's a point of view that says that the only way that science can make progress is by showing that theories are wrong. The argument goes like this: It's impossible to prove that a theory is right no matter how many experiments agree with it, but if one single experiment disagrees with it, then the theory must be wrong. Well, that itself is a theory of knowledge, which is wrong! Because, there are theories in science, which are so well verified by experience that they become promoted to the status of fact. [http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue38/einstein.html]+ + + + + +
Essay:Scientific progress (view source)
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There's a point of view that says that the only way that [[science]] can make progress is by showing that theories are wrong. The argument goes like this: It's impossible to prove that a theory is right no matter how many experiments agree with it, but if one single [[experiment]] disagrees with it, then the theory must be wrong. Well, that itself is a theory of knowledge, which is wrong! Because, there are theories in science, which are so well verified by experience that they become promoted to the status of fact. [http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue38/einstein.html]
Dr. [[Walter M. Robinson]], associate director of the division of [[medical ethics]] at [[Harvard Medical School]], said, "A little knowledge of the [[history of science]] tells us that advances are generally not planned and can't be predicted, but come from accidents and [[serendipitous moments]]." [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E3DD1739F93BA25752C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print (New York Times)]
However, once the advance is made, the plodding scientific method is very useful for separating the scientific sheep from the fantasy goats.
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