O Fim da Teoria e do Método Científico... E a culpa é do Google!

The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works. ... But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. There is now a better way. ... We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot... Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don't have to settle for models at all.

Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, 23 de junho de 2008.

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O Fim da Ciência

... scientists in, in both in physics and biology and in lots of different fields were talking in terms of reaching a kind of culmination or a final theory. For example, in physics, most physicists think that quantum mechanics is the--really sort of the final theory in a qualitative sense. We might discover new particles or phenomena in the future, but they basically will be within that framework of quantum mechanics. And the same way in biology--... Darwinian evolution and modern genetics, DNA-based genetics, created again this basic paragon within which all future knowledge would be placed.

Entrevista de John Horgan, autor de The End of Science. David Gergen, PBS, 26 de julho de 1996.

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