Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous accuracy. Theorists kept predicting new particles and other phenomena, and experiments kept bearing out those predictions.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Physicists do not believe quantum mechanics because it explains the world, but because it predicts the outcome of experiments with almost miraculous accuracy. Theorists kept predicting new particles and other phenomena, and experiments kept bearing out those predictions." in the context of "John Horgan, The End of Science (1996) p. 70" to mean that wisdom is timeless.