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Science's Epic Fails

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Science Is a Branch of Philosophy, Especially Physics

Science is really just a branch of philosophyespecially physics, especially physics. To test anything like the nature of the universe, or the physical world around us, you have to start with the idea. So there is a feat of imagination at play throughout everything that science offers. The reason that i think we will end up with lazer guns is, you know, because of starwos. And so really, the problem with science as we know it is that it's conducted by humans. If science as was done not by humans, then you would remove the human insistence on failing. Science as a process, as a cold, logical process, cannot fail. That's how progress is made

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