Sauce for the Ornithologist

In this NY Times article, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg quotes approvingly Richard Feynman’s dictum that “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” Seems to me that the corollary would be, “Scientists understand about as much about what they’re really doing as a tree does about photosynthesis.”

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