It's not a scientific truth that has come into question lately but
the truth--the very notion of scientific truth. Bringing a
reasonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around
this notion, this book offers a clear and constructive response to
those who contend, in parodies, polemics and op-ed pieces, that
there really is no such thing as verifiable objective
truth--without which there could be no such thing as scientific
authority.
A distinguished physicist with a rare gift for making the most
complicated scientific ideas comprehensible, Roger Newton gives us
a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science.
From there he conducts us through the understanding of reality
engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of
the sciences. With its firsthand look at models, facts, and
theories, intuition and imagination, the use of analogies and
metaphors, the importance of mathematics (and now, computers), and
the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles, "The Truth
of Science" truly is a practicing scientist's account of the
foundations, processes, and value of science.
To claims that science is a social construction, Newton answers
with the working scientist's credo: "A body of assertions is true
if it forms a coherent whole and works both in the external world
and in our minds." The truth of science, for Newton, is nothing
more or less than a relentless questioning of authority combined
with a relentless striving for objectivity in the full awareness
that the process never ends. With its lucid exposition of the
ideals, methods, and goals of science, his book performs a great
feat in service of this truth.
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