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===A good guess which stands up to empirical observation is still science=== | ===A good guess which stands up to empirical observation is still science=== | ||
See also {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s remarks about “lecturing birds to fly”. Random accidents can generate progress. On which Sutherland invokes the impish figure of {{author|Paul Feyerabend}} who, with | See also {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s remarks about “lecturing birds to fly”. Random accidents can — and usually do — generate progress. On which Sutherland invokes the impish figure of {{author|Paul Feyerabend}} who, with {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}, is one of the JC’s favourite contrarians in the philosophy of science. | ||
===Test counterintuitive things because no-one else will=== | ===Test counterintuitive things because no-one else will=== | ||