At 9:53 AM -0400 9/9/99, Larry Klaes wrote:
>From: Marty Fouts <mathematician@usenet.nospam.fogey.com>
>... A significant source of confusion in discussions of the philosophy and
> history of science is to intermix the sociology of scientists with
> the epistemological method of science. Scientists are humans and
> suffer from all of the strengths and weaknesses of humans...
Or as Richard Feynman so succinctly put it: "Science is a way of trying to not fool yourself."
Bill Arnett
http://www.seds.org/billa/
Emerald Hills, CA 37N 122W mailto:billa@znet.com
"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus