Lawrence Krauss on science:
“Science is a method for distinguishing fact from fiction.
It’s a method for asking questions systematically and for answering those
questions in a way that it’s possible to test. Science is a method based on
empirical evidence.”
“Science does change; it’s called progress. However, science
changes in a very well defined way. This is another big misunderstanding of
science: we don’t throw out what has been done before; what satisfies test and
experiment will always survive.”
“…science isn’t a set of facts, it’s a process for deriving
facts….it’s a process that’s worked over the last 400 years to make the world a
much better place in lots of ways…”
Ben Goldacre on science:
“There are really deeply embedded structural problems in
science, which people in my own profession have failed to fix.”
I'm pondering whether one sounds more like the grown-up than the other, or is it more as though one views his audience as grown-ups more than the other, or could it be a bit of both?
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