What Is The Speed of Dark?

We know your proposition and the answers we have. The science of agnosticism, that is, the study of ignorance, says that the size of the things we know and know nothing about increases faster than the size of the things we have shed. light on. Is it a coincidence that the phrase "in the

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" arose in all eras during the Age of Enlightenment? When Leeuwenhoek placed a dental swab under magnifying glasses he had built, he saw, for the first time in human history, small, moving creatures...microorganisms. He called them germs. This discovery shed light on why food spoiled: life did not appear on its own in ancient meat, but was there originally, but we did not see it.

But the discovery also showed us that we were in the

dark

about an entirely new field of biology. As Philip Bordo poetically put it: Enlightenment leads to darkness. Knowledge implies ignorance. What's really interesting about the vastness of the ocean of our ignorance is

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Stuart Firestein, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, said about it: Science begins "where the facts end, right behind them." "It is a mistake to delve deeper into the circle of facts, rather than ride the wave into the vast field that lies beyond the circle." If science is a journey, and the facts are the photographs we take along the way, then the fuel that drives it forward is ignorance.

Facts? More like a fax. Part of the past, not the way forward. When it comes to understanding our world, knowing why it is too late to ask why. Knowing the facts makes you smart and "luminous," but

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is equally fast, and sometimes faster, and more rewarding is the darkness. And your admission that you don't know everything, but that you like to know some things. As always I conclude, thanks for watching.