If physicists seem cynical now, perhaps that’s only because of their changed circumstances. In the Victorian era, no-one knew what startling discovery in physics was coming next. After about 1960, that dried up a lot, and physics became more about thrashing out the details of established theories. Not much “blue sky” research seems to be happening in physics, nor in science generally. Scientists are under constant pressure to publish things, I hear.
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