Today we take it for granted that all of science is founded upon the notion that there is a lawlike mathematical order in nature and that this order can be discerned through sufficiently clever and sometimes arcane procedures such as devising experiments where you isolate certain things, making certain careful observations and then doing a whole lot of squiggles on the blackboard. That is the way we do science now.
(from On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg)
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