Allen Roberts’s Reviews > The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science > Status Update

“The case of quantum mechanics, then, is the perfect exemplification of the supremacy, in modern science, of Newton’s precept that, for the purposes of “experimental philosophy,” derivation of the observable is the only kind of explanation that counts.” p.135

“Science is driven onward by arguments between people who have made up their minds and want to convert or at least to confute their rivals. Opinion that runs hot-blooded ahead of scientific fact is the life force of scientific inquiry.” p.77

“…[S]cientists impose on science not only their goals but also their theoretical and explanatory tastes.” p.52