Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Scientific progress is not a straightforward, rule-based process but a complex, often messy endeavor shaped by human judgment, historical context, and aesthetic intuition. Despite the myth of clean falsification and logical induction, real scientific breakthroughs often emerge from ambiguou
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