The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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.
The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
Science is about unravelling nature.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
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