The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

• 慕明

  2020-11-18
  But you were all taught about the evils of the Middle Age scholasticism-people deciding what would happen b reading in the books of Aristotle(384-322 BC)rather than looking at nature. This was Galileos(1564-1642)great point which started the modern scientific revolution--look at nature not in books! But what was I saying above? We are now looking more and more in books and less and less at nature! There is clearly a risk we will go too far occasionally -and I expect this will happen frequently in the future. We must not forget, in al the enthusiasm for computer simulations, occasionally w must look at nature as she Is