Thursday, December 28, 2017

THE PERIMETER OF IGNORANCE, A boundary where scientists face a choice: invoke a deity or continue the quest for knowledge

"There may be a limit to what the human mind can figure out about our universe. But how presumptuous it would be for me to claim that if I can't solve a problem, neither can any other person who has ever lived or who will ever be born. Suppose Galileo and Laplace had felt that way? Better yet, what if Newton had not? He might then have solved Laplace's problem a century earlier, making it possible for Laplace to cross the next frontier of ignorance."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Please see the rest of it at Neil deGrasse Tyson: THE PERIMETER OF IGNORANCE, A boundary where scientists face a choice: invoke a deity or continue the quest for knowledge

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