Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor

Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor

Modern science, particularly physics, is being forced, under pressure of its own advances, to acknowledge that the truths it offers are true not in an absolute but in a poetic sense, that its laws are contingent, and that its facts are a kind of metaphor.

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Veröffentlicht in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1998-07, Vol.281 (5373), p.40-41
1. Verfasser: Banville, John
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Analysis
Art and science
Essays on Science and Society
History
Irish literature
Irish poetry
Metaphor
Physics
Poetry
Quantum field theory
Science
Science history
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Zusammenfassung:Modern science, particularly physics, is being forced, under pressure of its own advances, to acknowledge that the truths it offers are true not in an absolute but in a poetic sense, that its laws are contingent, and that its facts are a kind of metaphor.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.281.5373.40