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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
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.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
Science is about unravelling nature.
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
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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