Word: experimenticist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many years. But most of the blame rests with the scientific community itself. By trying to fit the evolution of one of the most important scientific concepts of the 20th century into a neat logical sequence, Holton says, textbook writers (himself included) have nurtured what he calls the "experimenticist fallacy": the false notion that theory always flows directly from experiment. In the process, he says, they do not fully recognize the extraordinary intellectual daring of Einstein's equations, and also ignore the great scientist's own explanation of their origin: "There is no logical way to the discovery...
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