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Posted on 16th May 2018 |
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Quite some time ago (July 2013) I wrote about how there are no such things as the laws of science (here). I explained that science provides us with a set of models which approximately describe how the physical world will behave in various circumstances. I was very disparaging about the author of the article in question. Imagine my surprise, then, when I read this report on the Mother Nature Network, which contains a quote by Albert Einstein, in a letter to German physicist Max Born: "I am quite convinced that someone will eventually come up with a theory whose objects, connected by laws, are not probabilities but considered facts, as used to be taken for granted until quite recently". Einstein is considered to be one of the greatest scientists in history, and it was a real shock to me to discover that he, apparently, did not properly understand something so fundamental about the nature of science, his career and area of expertise. It seems that even our heroes are flawed. | |