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Robert P. Crease
(22 Oct 1953 - )
American philosopher of science and author whose books include Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972..
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Science Quotes by Robert P. Crease (1 quote)
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.
— Robert P. Crease
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science: from Pythagoras to Heisenberg (2009), 17.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
