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Bronowski’s principle of tolerance locates the roots of science in the domain of human creativity, in the necessity for personal judgment in science, and in the provisional and progressive nature of scientific truth: “You have to tell the truth the way you see it. And yet you have to be tolerant of the fact that neither you nor the man you are arguing with is going to get it right”.

Hard to argue with that.

For example, even if LHC experiments confirm some x-dimensional string theory to be 100% accurate beyond reproach -- that still only proves that it's a good representation of reality... not "reality" itself.

Thus -- much like the several schools currently interpreting quantum mechanical phenomena -- there will (most probably) evolve a variety of viewpoints "defining" what that x-dimensional string model means [i.e., seems to indicate about reality].

Last edited by Hal Itosis; 10/03/09 11:32 PM.