The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Science is about unravelling nature.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.