While I have not found the exact quote, from what I have seen written by
Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, the quote Shuan ascribed to him is probably
correct.
Similarly, I could not confirm a quote I had seen attributed to Lord Kelvin,
"Science and religion are truly opposed, but like thumb and forefinger.
Between the two, all things may be grasped."
Norm Woodward
Warner Robins Georgia
-----Original Message-----
From: John (Burgy) Burgeson [mailto:hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:42 PM
To: shuanr@boo.net; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Science and religion: two ways of knowing
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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