Dwarkesh Patel·Apr 10, 2026

Why Many Great Scientists Believed in Magic – Michael Nielsen

Name: Why Many Great Scientists Believed in Magic – Michael Nielsen
Uploaded: 2026-04-10T14:22:06+00:00
Description: Newton and early scientists operated in a hybrid worldview mixing empiricism with alchemy and theology — viewing natural philosophy as a form of discovering hidden laws that, from the outside, look in