Umberto Eco finds scientific method a suitable counterbalance to fundamentalism
September 4, The Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1296101,00.html
In which Eco:
- corrects the anti-science fallacy that confuses the scientific method with a blind belief in progress,
- contrasts science's laudible principle of "fallibilism" with faiths claimed infallibility, and
- evaluates which system is better suited to guide us through these troubled times.
Or, to put it in terms nearer to Eco's simplicity and eloquence:
Stephen Hawking says he was wrong! How wonderful!