A scientific myth is a myth about science. For example, scientific discoveries are often presented in a mythological way with a theory being presented as a dramatic flash of insight by a heroic individual rather than as the result of sustained experiment and reasoning. For example, Newtons law of universal gravitation is commonly presented as the result of an apple falling upon his head. Newtons observation of an apple falling did indeed play a part in starting him thinking about the problem but it took him about twenty years to fully develop the theory and so the story of the apple has been described as a myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_myth
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:05:08 +0000
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