Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow telling us (in "The Grand Design") that Epicurus opposed atomism because he couldn't face the idea that the gods don't intervene in the world. A thread.pic.twitter.com/7bpX2fsKsP
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Science is always improving (we're told) and so is never wrong in the way any other discipline is. The scientific mistakes are just because the science of the past was rudimentary, and note this is never considered a flaw of current science, even though it should be considered.