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To: marginmike who wrote (92327)1/23/2001 2:15:16 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
The renowned french scientist/mathematician Laplace supposedly held the view that the entire universe was a well posed initial value problem! Which wasn't entirely nuts given that real scientific tradition was in its beginnings then, and newtonian classical mechanics had been spectacularly successful in explaining things like the orbits of planets. A classic "if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" :)

But the stereotype opposition between scientists/mathematicians/engineers and the arts wasn't really valid even then much less now, where so many revolutions in thought have taken place we're completely used to it. Everyone who does good work knows that without incertainty, doubt and creativity life would be hopelessly boring, but without scientific/engineering rigor to back things up, ideas would largely remain empty dreams.
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