Lewis Wolpert: 'Science can be beautiful, amazing, the best way to try
to understand the world'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=609114
09 February 2005
Science needs your help. We need to find a way to bring the general
public and scientists closer together so that they can understand each
other better, helping to lead to sensible decisions about both science
and those applications of it that affect our lives. There have been
attempts to do this, but I'm not persuaded that any have been
successful, and there has been little research to find out if they
actually had useful results.
The issue of mutual trust is central. Science can be beautiful,
amazing, the best way of trying to understand the world. But it is
difficult. My own claim is that if an idea fits with common sense, then
it is almost certainly scientifically false. It is as clear as day, for
example, that the Sun goes round the Earth. The world is just not built
on a common-sense basis.
Lewis Wolpert
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/f6e10a58e38cf1bf
Science
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/1b7b6652bfe40462
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