It’s a nice quote, but I would rather think that science originated from the fact that people noticed correlations between things, and then some exceptionally bright people noticed increasingly non-obvious correlations, say in medicine or planetary positions.
I can see the ‘something is wrong’ part in more recent science, i.e., people experimenting, wondering ‘hmm, that’s funny,.. not what I expected’. Many scientist might discard such findings, but sometimes some lucky soul found something that is both ‘wrong’ and not an error of measurement, and discover something new.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
-Thomas Carlyle
It’s a nice quote, but I would rather think that science originated from the fact that people noticed correlations between things, and then some exceptionally bright people noticed increasingly non-obvious correlations, say in medicine or planetary positions.
I can see the ‘something is wrong’ part in more recent science, i.e., people experimenting, wondering ‘hmm, that’s funny,.. not what I expected’. Many scientist might discard such findings, but sometimes some lucky soul found something that is both ‘wrong’ and not an error of measurement, and discover something new.
Do you know what text that quote is from? I just started reading the Latter-Day Pamphlets.