me: >> By the way, science does not always advance. It sometimes gets stuck >> in cul-de-sacs or even goes backward (where "backward" is defined >> later, with the benefit of hindsight) or gets involved in building >> nukes and the like. Science can be corrupted, as in the pharmaceutical >> industry or financial engineering.
raghu: > I'd like to challenge you on this one. There do exist scientific > disciplines that ALWAYS advance. Mathematics, for instance. Our body > of knowledge of mathematics today is strictly greater than it was > yesterday and so on. I was thinking more about the _application_ of science (in research and engineering, etc.) than about abstract science. Sorry that I wasn't clear. (BTW, some do not consider mathematics to be a science. I do not know why.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
