>It was optimism that made science take off. No, the title should be "optimism chose me". Articles like this are the product of scientific progress. People don

>It was optimism that made science take off. No, the title should be "optimism chose me". Articles like this are the product of scientific progress. People don't have ideas, ideas have people. Science took itself off once it got started. (in tandem with capital). It's funny that 'rational optimism', Enlightenment obsessed people stress science and secularism so much. They may not notice it but the framework they're in is fundamentally religious and idealistic, assuming they can move the world in directions they want by thinking the right thoughts. "Appreciation and its close cousin, gratitude, are something we need a lot more of these days. But our gratitude is not for heaven-sent good fortune. It’s for the innumerable positive changes and advancements forged by science," The author is even somewhat self aware of the fact that this sounds suspiciously like worship, but somehow not completely.