303 | AMA | February 2025

10773.249 - 10797.68 Sean Carroll

Now there's the additional factor that in these two cases, the kinds of things you're trying to achieve, a scientific understanding of photon scattering versus a poetic description of the feelings that are invoked by the sunset, have different standards of success, right? Science, the scientific kind of description there is much more precise and rigorous and testable and quantifiable.