Science Will Explain Everything
<p class="default"><span style=" font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial;">The march of science during the 18th and 19th centuries produced enormous confidence in its success and generality. One field after another fell before objective inquiry, the experimental approach, and the logic of science. Scientific laws appeared to possess an absolute quality, and it was very easy to be convinced that science in time would explain everything. This was the time when Laplace could say that if he knew the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, and could calculate sufficiently well, he could predict the entire future. Many vestiges of this 19th-century scientific absolutism linger in our thinking and attitudes today. </span></p>
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