Magisterial Science

There are a lot of theorieshypotheses and conjectures

Most are contradictory

Therefore most, or all, are wrong.


There are three kinds of theorists:

• Those who are right
  
• Those who are wrong for the right reasons
  
• Those who are "not even wrong"
  

This is of course not a unique decomposition, there is also this one, which is near orthogonal to the previous one:

There are three kinds of theorists:

• Those who think they are right
  
• Those who "shut up and calculate"
  
• Those who are interesting
  

Also, as I tell the "Stars for Poets" class: science is not an adversarial process, but scientists often are. (journalists please note)

Hm, does that mean the Napoleonic Code is an emergent property of the Common Law...?