Re: Quote of the week

Posted by Marcos on Jun 05, 2011; 7:43pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Quote-of-the-week-tp6442957p6443019.html

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> wrote:

From the BBC's science podcast "The Infinite Monkey Cage":

"Philosophy is to physics as pornography is to sex. It's cheaper, it's easier and some people seem to prefer it."

Not to be pedantic, but I suspect that s/he has conflated "philosophy" with "new age", as much of science owes itself to philosophy.

marcos

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