Christopher Nelson > Quotes

“Descartes began thinking with the proposition: Question everything. We begin thinking with certain absolutely fundamental assumptions about the universe already made. We accept the reality of matter, the existence of time and space, the fact of Darwinian evolution – all, for the most part, unquestioningly. From this allegedly stable foundation we practice our particular brand of science. And the results of our findings are published, popularized, and generally accepted into the mass consciousness of modern society. But we rarely, if ever, acknowledge those initial assumptions, either to the public or to ourselves.”
― Christopher Nelson, The Dreaming Gods