Shuan wrote: "A fellow named Weinberg wrote it somewhere, but I can't track
it down). Science is not the search for all truth, just the truth about the
physical world."
My notes say it was Neils Bohr, and the quotation is "It is wrong to think
that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns only
what we can SAY about nature."
At one time I had a citation on this but it has been misplaced. Does anyone
have it?
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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