Subramanyan Chandrasekhar was once asked why he could innovate in physics well beyond retirement age, while most physicists do innovative work only when young. He said, “there seems to be a certain arrogance toward nature that people develop. These people have had great insights and made profound discoveries. They imagine afterwards that the fact that they succeeded so triumphantly in one area means they have a special way of looking at science which must be right. But science doesn’t permit that. Nature has shown over and over again that the kinds of truth which underlie nature transcend the most powerful minds.” Chandrasekhar seems to be saying that early success in knowing “puffs up” the scientist, so that his enlarged ego makes it hard to see the way forward on new problems. The humble self-forgetting love of knowing can remove this impediment.
Science dogmatized by atheists, particularly of the militant kind, need to practice more intellectual humility.
It's laughable when armchair philosophers and scientists religionize science and grant it as the Oracle of our "enlightened" age.
All HAIL science, our one stop shop for all definitive answers!
I find it easy to appreciate all that science has done for us and will continue to do.
I find it difficult to be a braggart on its behalf.
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