Physicist Freeman Dyson explains uncertainty in Science (2014) ✍️ The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a... See more

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment . Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.” But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also... See more