Time Matter and Values Author:Robert Andrews Millikan The following pages represent the authors attempt to give in very brief form Some of the most significant changes in fundamental concepts which have resulted From the extraordinary advances made in recent years in the field of experimental physics. These changes obviously haven't portant bearings Not only on physics but on the whole outlook ... more »of mankind towards nature, and hence toward life. they show that the great blunder which the physics of the past has made has consisted in extending its generalization with undo insurance into the fields in which they have not been experimentally tested,-- that is, in treating fees generalization as fixed, universally applicable principles instead of as essentially working hypotheses. This has led in the past to a dog meat isn't in science Which is at bottom indistinguishable from dogmatism in theology or in any other field; but the physicist has recently, through his blunders and his new experimental findings, learned a lesson of open mindedness which cannot fail to influence other fields of thought. philosophy and theology, as well as a biology and psychology, are sure to profit from it.« less