What are the attitudes of a physicist?

Answer 1

Great question. No short answer! Read anything by Richard Feynman to find out. Einstein also published his writings on politics and philosophy. Even Newton published a great deal on his philosophy of thinking about the universe. Newton's rules of reason combine some of the best: 1) Nature does nothing in vain, and more is vain when less will do. 2) Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. 3) Properties common to all bodies within reach of our experiments are assumed to apply to all bodies in general, until proven otherwise. 4) In experiential philosophy, hypotheses based on experience should be accepted as "accurate or very nearly true," unless a contrary hypothesis may be imagined.