Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1926
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1926natur.117r.231m&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 117, Issue 2937, pp. 231 (1926).
Physics
Scientific paper
DR. MURRAY'S reply to my review makes me feel, like the Elephant's Child, ``a little warm, but not at all astonished''. For I have not been taken literally, and I wished to be. Nor, I think, has Sir Oliver Lodge; for, whatever opinion the words of his ``Introduction'' may cover, in them he most certainly does not ``expressly agree'' that science is as full of prepossessions as is theology; he presents Dr. Murray's conclusion and its consequence, but his personal verdict on the question of equality is with-held. So far am I from dissenting from Dr. Murray's statement that new ideas are not enthusiastically received in the scientific world, that I was at pains to emphasise this fact, and went further by asserting that this coldness plays an indispensable part in the method of science by counteracting hasty belief. That Dr. Murray neglects the fundamental value of decent scepticism is my main quarrel with him. Please, I did not suggest that only the rank and file pooh-pooh new ideas ! I expressly included every one. In doing so, I propounded an idea, and Dr. Murray has unkindly blighted it by neglect; I said, ``Moreover, no man of science, not even the greatest, has more than a short period in his life during which he is so free from human vanities that his discoveries are faultless and his opinions just''. Dr. Murray implies that I called Joule's work ``one experiment'' I said ``one research''.
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