The Limits of Science—and Scientists
Ananyo Bhattacharya is the chief online editor of Nature magazine.
"About what one can not speak, one must remain silent." The last line of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus tends to resonate with scientists, sceptics, atheists, and other fans of rationality. If your thought cannot be articulated sensibly in plain language then you had better keep it to yourself. Written amid the slaughter of World War I, the book became central to the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers who sat around the Caf