A few years ago, on reading–perhaps in the New York Review of Books—Steven Weinberg mention his teaching an undergraduate history of science class at the University of Texas, I wrote to Weinberg: Professor Weinberg, […] I believe you teach a class on the history of science at UT-Austin. I would be very interested in perusing yourContinue reading “Steven Weinberg’s History Of Science Syllabus”
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Heisenberg On Minimal Theoretical Change In Scientific Revolutions
In ‘Abstraction in Modern Art and Science’ (from Across the Frontiers, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1974) Werner Heisenberg wrote: How does a revolution in science come about? The answer: By trying to change as little as possible; by concentrating all efforts on the solution of a special and obviously still unsolved problem, and proceeding as conservativelyContinue reading “Heisenberg On Minimal Theoretical Change In Scientific Revolutions”
Samir Chopra 