[GourmetDan]

"Acceptance of the theory or rejection of the theory based upon evidence. There is no such thing as “scientific faith”."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." — Max Planck

[betty boop]

"Acceptance of the theory or rejection of the theory based upon evidence. There is no such thing as “scientific faith."

Of course there is! Scientists are not exempt from the human condition. Bottom-line, all human knowledge and action absolutely depends on, or "bottoms out" in faith of some kind. Crudely put, for scientists, typically this is faith in the intelligibility of Nature, or of the universe — de minimus. Otherwise, scientific activity would be pointless.

Thank you so much for your excellent observations, GourmetDan!

[betty boop]

I'm sure Albert Einstein would have agreed with his friend Max Planck's remark on the indispensability of faith to the enterprise of science....

Thank you so very much, dear Dan, for the wonderful excerpt from Planck!