Klarheit der Wissenschaft vs. Endlose Debatten

Weshalb die Wissenschaft so erfolgreich ist, beschreibt


Feynman in Abschnitt 7-6, Cavendish's experiment, seiner Lectures on Physics, V1, Ch. 7:


" It is hard to exaggerate the importance of the effect on the history of science produced by this great success of the theory of gravitation.


Compare the confusion, the lack of confidence, the incomplete knowledge that prevailed in earlier ages, when there were endless debates and paradoxes, with the clarity and simplicity of this law


--the fact that all the moons and planets and stars have such a /simple rule/ to govern them, and further that man could /understand/ it and deduce how the planets should move!


This is the reason for the success of the sciences in following years, for it gave hope that the other phenomena of the world might also have such beautifully simple laws."


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