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All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.”
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)
“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so ...”
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)
“We atheists can . . . argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse”.
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)
That Big Science culture in the USA, and similar groups elswhere, tended to have separate, direct access to government and hence to funding sources. It was independent to a great extent of the rest of science, of which it was never a majority component except in funding.
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)
My Harvard classmate, Thomas S. Kuhn wrote, some years ago, an influential book about scientific revolutions. Fortunately, many scientific revolutions do not follow his scenario, but the one he focused on, the discovery of quantum mechanics, is well described by his model, which is most valid for a revolution occurring in the central core of a mature science.
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)