The Nature of Scientific Progress
Physicist and Nobel laureate W.L. Bragg once compared science to a coral reef, pointing out how the living organisms at the surface produce the growth of the reef on top of tens of hundreds of feet of skeletons of organisms that have long since died. The life of the reef is only at its surface; the life of science is only at its frontier. The main idea of this analogy is that present science …
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…only see that science has progressed because our present day theories are better at solving problems than their predecessors. Because we cannot reach the absolute truth, no matter how far science progresses there will always be room for infinite improvement. In the words of Albert Einstein, “one thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
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