Abstract

The name ‘scientific world view’ is intended both as a confession of faith and as a delimitation of a subject: It is to confess our faith in the methods of the exact sciences, especially mathematics and physics, faith in careful logical inference (as opposed to bold flights of ideas, mystical intuition, and emotive comprehension), faith in the patient observation of phenomena, isolated as much as possible, no matter how negligible and insignificant they may appear in themselves (as opposed to the poetic, imaginative attempt to grasp wholes and complexes, as significant and as all-encompassing as possible).

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