Collaborative beings
Mar 27th, 2007 | By Ian Poulton | Category: SpiritualitySometimes scientists come much closer to religion than they would care to admit. Here are the concluding paragraphs of Carlo Rovelli’s contribution to the 2006 Edge collection, What we believe but cannot prove. Rovelli is a theoretical physicist.
“Beliefs that one cannot prove are often wrong. But they are also often healthy, and they are essential in science. Here is a good example from twenty-four centuries ago: Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedo, says, ‘I know not hat the art of Glaucus could prove the truth of my tale, which I …