h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, just wanna say I agree with you! Scientists can be very arrogant ... and it's actually holding back science, as I see it! I'm very pro-science ... but we really need to be constantly aware of how little we actually know. That's the only way we can actually learn better. And what would people 300, 500 years or more in the future, think of what we believe we know today? And they, too, will not know as much as the folks who might come some hundred years after them ... IF science indeeds keeps progressing ... which it might *not*. Nothing can be taken for granted.

>>and it's actually holding back science...<<

Amen. It is. Which is the true danger. We need a better class of people in the sciences, when what we're getting are geeks.

When researchers think they 'failed' only because they disproved their favourite hypotheses and didn't get a book tour out of it, they're missing the point of science.

And probably leaving more openings for the conspiracy view of knowledge, alas...

file:///storage/emulated/0/Download/The%20Meaning%20of%20it%20All%20-%20Richard%20Feynman.epub

Hope this prints okay.

Apparently not, a collection of 3 lectures by Richard Feynman on science and belief, title "The Meaning of It All"

I'll try again later.

Supper time now.

Hi ITIWBS! I have that, as a small book. Very interesting, but I don't agree with Feynman about everything.

Nor do I, but he is exceptionally thought provoking, which is what I find entertaining about his writing.

I might myself have approached his theme from a somewhat different standpoint, doubt versus denial, taking the two as dynamic opposites.