Question 14 • SLPS-2001340-Environmental-Science A -GF
As one story goes, the famous 20-century physicist Niels Bohr and his team were interviewing a young man for a job. As part of the interview, the man described a hypothesis he had developed. A few days later, the man returned to find out whether he had been hired. Bohr greeted him with these words: "We are all agreed that your hypothesis is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to be correct." The man was hired. What example of scientific thinking does Bohr's response best indicate?
Answer
A
acceptance of new ideas
B
open-mindedness toward new ideas
C
rejection of untested new ideas
D
skepticism of new ideas
Explanation
Bohr and his team did not accept the hypothesis as true just because it was unusual, but they were willing to consider that it might be correct. That shows open-mindedness toward new ideas, rather than immediate acceptance or rejection.
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