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Norwood Russell Hanson
(17 Aug 1924 - Apr 1967)
American philosopher of science.
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Science Quotes by Norwood Russell Hanson (2 quotes)
Seeing is an experience. A retinal reaction is only a physical state... People, not their eyes, see. Cameras, and eye-balls, are blind... there is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
Patterns of Discovery (1958), 6-7.
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
Patterns of Discovery (1958), 157.
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) -- 
