We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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