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| William James |
I suspect this quote from William James is at least as true today as when he wrote it. It may also be a far more pernicious problem than we are usually prepared to admit, because I think James, whether he knew it or not was foretelling the death of academia.
Whatever universe a professor believes in
must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A
universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial
intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James –
Pragmatism
2 comments:
Have no fear for the professors. They saw this one coming, and invented the concept of the "multiverse".
SV - and climate models.
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