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| Leon Brillouin |
I so enjoyed reading this and I must pass this on to you folk.
At this point we may raise a most important question: How much confidence do scientific theories deserve? The answer must be cautious enough: a good deal, but not too much! There are limitations to all our theories; they are good up to a certain limit and within certain boundaries. They do not represent " The truth, nothing but the truth...." Every theory is based on experiments that have been checked very carefully, but the result can only be stated " within possible errors " between fixed limits according to the best knowledge of the experimenter. There is always a possibility that a new, unpredictable cause of errors might be playing a role in a new experiment, or that the theory has been extrapolated too far from its domain.
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---- Leon Brillouin - Relativity Reexamined (1970). Academic Press.
