{"id":510,"date":"2015-01-26T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:58:14","slug":"sir-paul-nurse-on-conjectures-and-refutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/26\/sir-paul-nurse-on-conjectures-and-refutations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04yb7nl\">BBC Radio 3 &#8211; The Essay, The Book that Changed Me, Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Broadcast Friday 23 Jan 2015 22:45<\/p>\n<p>My own revelation of the insight of Karl Popper came from second-year tutorials with Colin McClare, a lecturer in Biophysics at King&#8217;s College London. I had the temerity to argue with my tutor. He won. He was right. <\/p>\n<p>I began with <em>The Logic of Scientific Discovery<\/em>, and read it from cover to cover. <em>Conjectures and Refutations<\/em> came next.<\/p>\n<p>It continues to amaze me that so many people responsible for making decisions on science, funding, and research priorities seem not to have understood that &#8220;Hypotheses are nets \u2013\u00a0he who casts will catch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And that the purpose of every experiment is to test an hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 3 &#8211; The Essay, The Book that Changed Me, Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations Broadcast Friday 23 Jan 2015 22:45 My own revelation of the insight of Karl Popper came from second-year tutorials with Colin McClare, a lecturer in Biophysics at King&#8217;s College London. I had the temerity to argue with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/26\/sir-paul-nurse-on-conjectures-and-refutations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-science","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}