When do ideas get easier to find? - by Eric Gilliam

And why progress studies may be much older than you think

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson Since the last article on WW2-era German science was so well-received, I’ve decided to keep the theme of great pieces of scholarship about scientific history going. This week’s post is largely drawn from the essays of Gerard Holton. Holton’s work is, similar to the scholarship covered in the previous post, criminally under-talked about in the…

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related reading

• We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• Is Science Stagnant? - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• You and Your Researchcs.virginia.edu
• Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward and I will fight themexperimental-history.com
• Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward and I will fight themexperimentalhistory.substack.com
• A Vision of Metasciencescienceplusplus.org
• Is Science Stagnant? - The Atlanticweb.archive.org
• Is Science Slowing Down? — LessWronglesswrong.com
• We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• You And Your Research · Gwern.netgwern.net
• An invitation to a secret society - by Adam Mastroianniexperimental-history.com
• Against the Burden of Knowledge - Seeds of Sciencetheseedsofscience.pub