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HN08 with some thoughts.
She is paraphrasing the following:
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<i>Among the causes of this scientific tunnel vision I would like to discuss two that result from the nature of scientific tradition. The first of these is methodology. in its laudable insistence upon experience, accurate observation and verifiability, science has placed great emphasis upon measurement. To measure something is to experience it in a certain dimension, a dimension in which we can make observations of great accuracy which are repeatable by others. The use of measurement has enabled science to make enormous strides in the understanding of the material universe. But by virtue of its success, measurement has become a kind of scientific idol. The result is an attitude on the part of many scientists of not only skepticism but outright rejection of what cannot be measured. it is as if they were to say, "What we cannot measure, we cannot know; there is no point in worrying about what we cannot know; therefore, what cannot be measured is unimportant and unworthy of our observations." Because of this attitude many scientists exclude from their serious consideration all matters that are - or seem to be - intangible. Including, or course, the matter of God.
This strange but remarkably common assumption that things that are not easy to study do not merit study is beginning to be challenged...</i>
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<i>To what appear to be the simplest questions, we will tend to give either no answer or an answer which will at first sight be reminiscent more of a strange catechism than of the straightforward affirmatives of physical science. if we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say "no"; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say "no"; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say "no"; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say "no." The Buddha has given such answers when interrogated as to the conditions of a man's self after his death; but they are not the familiar answers for the tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth century science.</i>
1) <u>"The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck, M.D. Touchstone edition 2003, P226</u>
2) <u>"Science and the Common Understanding", by J. Robert Oppenheimer, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953, P40
HN08 with some thoughts.
She is paraphrasing the following:
Panel 1
<i>Among the causes of this scientific tunnel vision I would like to discuss two that result from the nature of scientific tradition. The first of these is methodology. in its laudable insistence upon experience, accurate observation and verifiability, science has placed great emphasis upon measurement. To measure something is to experience it in a certain dimension, a dimension in which we can make observations of great accuracy which are repeatable by others. The use of measurement has enabled science to make enormous strides in the understanding of the material universe. But by virtue of its success, measurement has become a kind of scientific idol. The result is an attitude on the part of many scientists of not only skepticism but outright rejection of what cannot be measured. it is as if they were to say, "What we cannot measure, we cannot know; there is no point in worrying about what we cannot know; therefore, what cannot be measured is unimportant and unworthy of our observations." Because of this attitude many scientists exclude from their serious consideration all matters that are - or seem to be - intangible. Including, or course, the matter of God.
This strange but remarkably common assumption that things that are not easy to study do not merit study is beginning to be challenged...</i>
Panel 2
<i>To what appear to be the simplest questions, we will tend to give either no answer or an answer which will at first sight be reminiscent more of a strange catechism than of the straightforward affirmatives of physical science. if we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say "no"; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say "no"; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say "no"; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say "no." The Buddha has given such answers when interrogated as to the conditions of a man's self after his death; but they are not the familiar answers for the tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth century science.</i>
1) <u>"The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck, M.D. Touchstone edition 2003, P226</u>
2) <u>"Science and the Common Understanding", by J. Robert Oppenheimer, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953, P40
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