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Assumptions: Taking Chemistry in New Directions
Author(s) -
Whitesides George M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200330076
Subject(s) - hindsight bias , epistemology , management science , computer science , engineering ethics , psychology , philosophy , engineering , social psychology
Is thinking about the future an important thing to do or just a diversion? Science periodically requires society to discard important assumptions, with profound consequences. Failed assumptions are easy to identify with hindsight, but can they be predicted? In this Essay, the author discusses assumptions society accepts, and the potential of science to disprove them.