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In the pages that follow, I will show that this bleak assessment of the state of the world is wrong.
“This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“religion and science are engaged in a kind of war: a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what we accept as true.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
“Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
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