Hermann
Registered Senior Member
Science seems to deal with facts, while philosophy is dealing with speculations. This superficial view is shared by many people, but it is wrong.
Speculations are the motivation and motor for science, although the probability for success of an individual speculation is not higher than on the stock market. There would be no science without speculations.
It is a fact, that each answer to a scientific question creates several new questions. Therefore science has today the most solid knowledge since ever by firmly answered questions, but there are even more questions known where is no answer yet.
I hate the glorification of science where scientists are guilty for. I would wish, that scientists and especially scientific journalists would tell the public more about what is not known today than about scientific speculations.
Science is no religion and no world outlook (weltanschauung). For the development of our own weltanschauung we have a huge freedom of thinking, which is just restricted by a few scientific facts as I have described on my website:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/hermann.raith
Speculations are the motivation and motor for science, although the probability for success of an individual speculation is not higher than on the stock market. There would be no science without speculations.
It is a fact, that each answer to a scientific question creates several new questions. Therefore science has today the most solid knowledge since ever by firmly answered questions, but there are even more questions known where is no answer yet.
I hate the glorification of science where scientists are guilty for. I would wish, that scientists and especially scientific journalists would tell the public more about what is not known today than about scientific speculations.
Science is no religion and no world outlook (weltanschauung). For the development of our own weltanschauung we have a huge freedom of thinking, which is just restricted by a few scientific facts as I have described on my website:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/hermann.raith
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