I n, 1687, in his groundbreaking Principia , Isaac Newton made a fundamental assertion--a fundamental assumption --about reality.  It is tha...

I n yesterday's  post  I suggested that Darwin had a Newtonian view of the world, that is, he repeatedly and clearly described the organ...

H istory shows that, even in science, things that everyone has long taken for granted may not be true.  Thinking in ways more carefully cons...