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Reply to comment by drdan82408a in Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston by Maxwellsdemon17
I'm going back for my physics PhD, hopefully, but it's been decades since I studied physics. You know how I'm going to catch up? The history of physics. If you go through major experiments and realize that the technology and the times influence the thinking, in any discipline, it becomes a cohesive whole.
I think it was Richard Feynman who said that the universe doesn't see biology, physics, psychology, or anything as separate. They're all a continuum of the universe expressing itself, so to speak. It's only man that categorizes and compartmentalizes.
The idea that no man is an island goes even further. Nothing happens in the universe unless it is influenced by something else. It's all momentum.
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