/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9724947
It started with Niels Bohr. Einstein was deeply troubled with what quantum mechanics implied and Bohr's response was "Dude, who cares lol. Those aren't even questions physics is supposed to answer. We're only interested in what works, not why it works" and that strain of anti-intellectualism is still alive today in some circles.

>That is the sort of question that can never be answered.
That doesn't mean it's not an interesting question. The fact that science has devolved into just finding mathematical correlations in nature is an indictment of it. The greats in history, Newton, Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, were all driven by a desire to know the truth, why the universe works the way it does. Einstein famously said his motivation was to "understand the mind of God".