QUOTES
Albert Einstein
A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae
extracted from our minds.
ARTICLES
Odds Are, It's Wrong
by Tom Siegfried
The “scientific method” of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands
on a flimsy foundation. As a result, countless conclusions in the scientific
literature are erroneous, and tests of medical dangers or treatments are
often contradictory and confusing. (Article from Science News) Also see the
longer Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture.
BOOKS
Inventing Reality: Physics as Language
by Bruce Gregory
Physicists use a very precise language, and this precision gives us an opportunity
to see more clearly than is otherwise possible just how much of what we
find in the world is the result of the way we talk about the world. (full
text pdf)
VIDEOS
Probability, Determinism, and Free Will
by Judith V. Grabiner
Statistical reasoning and the use of probability to make predictions about
nature exemplify the way developments in mathematics and science can both
pose philosophical questions and help illuminate their possible answers.
INTERACTIVE WEBSITES
Physics
Quotes
Quotes by physicists and/or on physics-related subjects.
Foldit: Solve Puzzles For Science
Knowing
the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to
targeting it with drugs. Figuring out which of the many, many possible
structures is the best one is regarded as one of the hardest problems in
biology today and current methods take a lot of money and time, even for
computers. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking
advantage of humans' puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively
to fold the best proteins.
LINKS
Michael McIntyre's home page
The ideas of Cambridge atmospheric scientist Michael McIntyre, Emeritus
Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Science at the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, with reference
to "the unimaginably large number of ways for complex systems to
go wrong."
