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It is supreme arrogance to assume we have it right and all the ones before us had it wrong. Truth is we have no idea about much of anything, especially the univ
by chongli 7y ago
It is supreme arrogance to assume we have it right and all the ones before us had it wrong. Truth is we have no idea about much of anything, especially the universe or ourselves and it's all essentially blind faith.
Scientific consensus is just the new papal decree.
We have been to the bottom of the ocean and orbited the globe. We have put people on the moon and robots on Mars. We have sent probes beyond the far reaches of the solar system and we have peered into the depths of the universe.
All of these things we've done, not with arrogance, but with humility. The central scientific principle is that we are fallible creatures who have no privileged access to the truth. Only through the hard work of experimentation and repetition can we build any semblance of a model for reality.
And yet we maintain that "all models are wrong, some are useful." [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong