Zuts, post 11..
" Of course they had no real scientific method and Plato believed that it was possible to deduce all there was to know from an armchair.
Undeniably, Einstein was a scientific genius.
His laboratory was the mind. His revelations came from from thought experiments. To quote Einstein:
" The sense experiences are the given subject matter, but the theory that shall interpret them is man made. It is the result of an extremely laborious process of adaptation, hypothetical, never completely final, always subject to question and doubt"
So perhaps Plato was right in that is possible to deduce all there is to know from an armchair.
