Einstein got it – philosophy and science do go hand in hand

There is a great article by Julian Friedland, "a philosopher," in NY Times.

"For roughly 98 percent of the last 2,500 years of Western intellectual history, philosophy was considered the mother of all knowledge. It generated most of the fields of research still with us today. This is why we continue to call our highest degrees Ph.D.’s, namely, philosophy doctorates.
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In sum, philosophy is not science. For it employs the rational tools of logical analysis and conceptual clarification in lieu of empirical measurement. And this approach, when carefully carried out, can yield knowledge at times more reliable and enduring than science, strictly speaking. For scientific measurement is in principle always subject to at least some degree of readjustment based on future observation. Yet sound philosophical argument achieves a measure of immortality.
So if we philosophers want to restore philosophy’s authority in the wider culture, we should not change its name but engage more often with issues of contemporary concern — not so much as scientists but as guardians of reason. This might encourage the wider population to think more critically, that is, to become more philosophical."

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinion...-is-not-a-science/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Science is not a measurement.
You are right that science is defined by philosophy...hence the PhD.
 
Only a scientific illiterate would say that. There is very little about QM that is obvious unless you were East European and a theoretical physicist. Being Jewish helped seemingly, those were some incredibly smart people.

He heard the phrase somewhere and is just repeating it to 'sound smart'. He doesn't even know what quantum mechanics is or what it does.
 
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