Well... maybe when you are a 50 years old scientist, you can say that, but this is not the spirit in which science is teached to children or popularized to laymen. The spirit of science popularization is that it gives us the truth, and we should obey or die. If scientists are such moral people, then why they don't tell to their students in the first class of their course that they will only present to them a model ? Instead, they jump right in: "Space is such-and-such, time is such-and-such.". I never heard any professor of mine telling us that they are only presenting us models.
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:23:27 UTC+2, Brent wrote: > > The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, > they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct > which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes > observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is > solely and precisely that it is expected to work. > --—John von Neumann > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0820104a-969a-45d5-989e-36c6ed0e6d29%40googlegroups.com.
