Science is a narrow tool: powerful and tenacious like a pit bull, but having no intrinsic wisdom or context. It concerns itself with what we can do, not what we should do.

— Tom Murphy, Confessions of a Disillusioned Scientist (2023)

Source: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/confessions-of-a-disillusioned-scientist/

From a December 2023 post on Do the Math.

Topics: science