You can know more than you can prove

February 13, 2025

Years ago, when I was a student at Caltech, I remember the physicist Richard Feynman saying: “You can know more than you can ever prove.” Never was this scientific intuition used to greater effect than by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who in the early 20th century concocted a model of the atom that explained all of chemistry but which had pretty much no scientific justification… Read more

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