Article June 26, 1965 Issue

Signs of the Times

Dean Sanborn C. Brown

Chicago Daily News

Dean Sanborn C. Brown
as reported by Dave Meade in the Chicago Daily News
Chicago, Illinois

The religionist outfit to take a cue from the physicist in his search for truth, a group of scientists and theologians was told here. Their two methods of knowing reality and of validating" such knowledge, while not the same, should he similar, according to Sanborn C. Brown physics professor and associate dean of the (Graduate School it Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

" What the scientist does is to collect the basic facts in the field he wishes to study and then creates in intellectual model (theory of the whole picture). of how these facts might be used to explain all the facts and predict further facts to he looked for as well.... After a model has been put together, the scientist must test its credibility in every way...."

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