Every now and then one stumbles upon a great and pithy phrase. The one I found today appears in a letter from Paul Grobstein to John Bemis, at Bryn Mawr: Science is the process of getting things progressively less wrong. You should read the whole piece. Go on. I’ll wait. No, I won’t. See you later!
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That is an excellent piece.
I’ve shared this related link so many places I feel like surely I’ve left it here before. Still, it is relevant again: The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov.
Thanks, Mike. I’ve been a big fan of Asimov’s nonfiction for quite a while (for some reason I was never able to enjoy his fiction much; go figure). Relativity is one of my favorite essays, Asimov at his engaging best.