[edsheppa]

At a glance I don't see that he says anything much different from what I said. But perhaps you show me where he says that science is based on a system of personal beliefs or makes metaphysical claims.

[microgood]

You hate state earlier that philosophy really has little affect on modern science in the 19th and 20th centuries. The link I provided showed the influence of philosophy on the development of the scientific method, including the idea that theories should be testable, which was done by a philosopher name Karl Popper, who had a huge influence on modern science, and just died in 1994.

Here is a quote:

The most important philosopher of science since Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Sir Karl Popper finally solved the puzzle of scientific method, which in practice had never seemed to conform to the principles or logic described by Bacon. Instead of scientific knowledge being discovered and verified by way of inductive generalizations, leaping from data into blank minds, in terms that go back to Aristotle, Popper realized that science advances instead by deductive falsification through a process of "conjectures and refutations."

He was highly regarded by many scientists.