Saturday, August 4, 2007

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman

Interesting and some historic and seminal ideas, molecular computing, h istory of Los Alamos, the Challenger inquiry. I find his philosophizing shallow and naive. His view of science is so overconfident and naive (again, it seems the best word; uncritical might be even more accurate). He seems not to see that all statements about science are philosophical and not scientific. He seems to claim that when a scientist looks at science and culture he is looking at both scientifically. As opposed to non-scientists, who look at science ignorantly and the world unscientifically.

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