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Old July 3rd 08 posted to sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.sci.physics,rec.org.mensa,alt.atheism
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Default The fact that we don't know that much

On Jul 2, 4:30*pm, Douglas Berry
wrote:
On *Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:30:50 -0700 (PDT) BURT
carved the following into the hard stone of alt.atheism

I observe people in science believing that we know a lot. I don't
share that hubris. Everything you know is wrong. Science has just
begun. Ask science how much it knows when it is a million years old
and see what answer you get.


Every scienctist knows that we know next to nothing. Every answer we
get usually creates a dozen more questions, and those questions, when
answered, spawn new lines of research.

I can say with some confidence that our answers stand up to scrutiny,
and have materially improved life here on Earth.
--

Douglas Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2011

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein


We and science have a vast future, I want to know what science is
going to be like in a million years. That is what I dream of.

Mitch Raemsch
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