
Science's Revelations
In Our Time: Science
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Thinking About Science Is Different Than Fiction
i don't think i could have described five men hanging on the ropes of a balloon, trying to keep it down. The language of that altruism versus selfishness is drawn directly froma discussion that's been going on amongst evolutionists and biologists and economists also drawing from it for some years. But so much of is imagination, so much of deciding what to test, what experiments to do, is a piece of sheer creative imagination. And people only give usn well, einstein, i suppose, in einstein's great gift was huge imagination, a wonderful way of letting his mind soar away from the mundane. Yes, thought experiments.
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