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Science will only end once we've licked all the objects in the universe

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There’s an exquisite, painful joy in discovering someone who believes everything that you believe, except for one very important thing. Imagine two Christians meeting each other and finding that they share all the same dogma—God sent his only son to die for our sins, etc., except one of them thinks God’s only son was a guy named Jesus who lived in first-century Palestine, and the other one thinks God’s only son was a guy named Gary who lived in 1970s Poughkipsee. That’s how I felt reading The End of Science by the journalist John Horgan. If you printed out big chunks of this blog, stapled them together, and then crossed out the conclusion and wrote in the opposite, you would get something like Horgan’s book. I’m gonna unload on Horgan’s argument in a minute, but before I do: this book is a treasure. In particular, Horgan’s interviews with the philosophers of science Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, and Paul Feyeraband are, to me, instant classics. (Fortunately, you can read those interviews h

Science will only end once we've licked all the objects in the universe OR: the return of Gary the Messiah Adam Mastroianni Mar 19, 2024 247 77 34 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -25:36 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. photo cred: my dad There’s an exquisite, painful joy in discovering someone who believes everything that you believe, except for one very important thing . Imagine two Christians meeting each other and finding that they share all the same dogma—God sent his only son to die for our sins, etc., except one of them thinks God’s only son was a guy named J

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