"Feyerabend's Dadaesque rhetoric concealed a deadly serious point: the human compulsion to find absolute truths, howev…"

"Between sessions at a physics conference, I asked a number of attendees: Who is the smartest physicist of them all? .…"

"Newton's version of gravity violates common sense. How can one thing tug at another across vast spans of space? ...Ne…"

"In the early 1990s, I came to suspect that the quest for a unified theory is religious rather than scientific. Physic…"

"Our descendants will learn much more about nature, and they will invent gadgets even cooler than smart phones. But th…"

"Over the last few decades, physics in the grand mode practiced by Hawking and Rees has become increasingly disconnect…"

"By the time I was 11 or so Catholicism stopped making sense. Why, if God loves us, would He inflict hell on us, just …"

"Science has only existed for a few hundred years, and its most spectacular achievements have occurred within the last…"

"Of the three great skeptics I interviewed, Popper was the first to make his mark. His philosophy stemmed from his eff…"

"Kuhn's recognition that science might cease—leaving us with what Charles Sanders Peirce had defined as the "truth" ab…"