2010-07-27

Läsvärt om vetenskap

Här är en mycket upplysande text som bör läsas av alla som i positivistisk anda tror på allt folk säger bara för att de råkar ha titeln professor på visitkortet:

When someone says, ‘Science teaches such and such,’ he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, ‘Science has shown such and such,’ you should ask, ‘How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?’ It should not be ‘science has shown.’ And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments (but be patient and listen to all the evidence) to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.
- Thank you Thomas, for sending it!

2 kommentarer:

  1. Det heter inte "för att de råkar har".

    Det heter "för att de råkar ha".

    Litet konservatism vore bra för språket.

    SvaraRadera
  2. Till Erik Rune: Good to have people around who specialize in grammar;-)

    SvaraRadera