I don't think this post is that interesting since reason is a large part of science, but I do want to share some history on "pure reason" and how it blinded hum

I don't think this post is that interesting since reason is a large part of science, but I do want to share some history on "pure reason" and how it blinded humanity for 2000 years. Pythagoras was a great mathematician, but also a big promoter of "pure reason" and mysticism. The religious movement he started was called Pythagoreanism (-) and one of the stories about Pythagoreanism is that they discovered irrational numbers, but they hid their discovery from the general public, since irrational numbers did not fit into their "rational world view". Plato and Aristotle are successors of Pythagoras. Much of the western philosophy and religion is built on their ideas. For them pure reason (and belief) was more important and valid than reality. How much did "pure reason" blind us? Johannes Kepler was largely inspired by Plato and Aristotle and believed for most of his life that the solar system was built by the five Platonic solids (-). And most of his life was spent on building a model for this. Kepler abandoned his idea when he saw Tycho Brahe's excessive observations and data. Personally, I think the world would have been a much better and more different place if experiments, data and reality were promoted instead of "pure reason" and mysticism. The Ancient Greece had their promoters of experiments (for example, Democritus (-) [the father of atomic theory], but he was hated by "pure thinkers" such as Plato). * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus