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.
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.