True Science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant.
- Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life.
True Science, To Doubt, and to be Ignorant
by VM44 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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VM44
More doubting quotes may be found at:
THE ROLE OF DOUBT IN SCIENCE
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Homerovah the Almighty
It is both intelligent and honest to except the known, its also intelligent and honest to except the unknown but is yet to be discovered .
How about we just let the discoveries of science and knowledge take its course and be grateful for what we have found and utilize it to are ability
after all it will be humanity that will be the beneficiary from it in the long run.
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Spook
I've concluded that doubt is good and I encourage it. On the nature of full belief in "truth" in the face of a degree of evidence, I think some readers of this forum may like to consider the idea popularized by William James in 1897 as the "Will to Believe." This turns up in many debates about God still today. D'nesh D'Souza often argues from this line of thought. Odly enough, modern science has confirmed the nature and sources of self-fulfilling beliefs, of putting the emotional cart before the intellectual horse in all areas of life. There is of course much opposition in the philosophical world and how to identify the problems of this. You might also check out Bertrand Russell's "The Ancestry of Fascism" on the nature of that argument.
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Rapunzel
"I would gladly give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found the truth." Luis Bunuel
"Religious faith, profound as it is, must surely remain a private matter. This rejection of totalized explanations is the modern condition. And this is where the novel, the form created to discuss the fragmentation of truth, comes in...The elevation of the quest for the Grail over the Grail itself, the acceptance that all that is solid has melted into air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins." Salman Rushdie