What do you believe that is true, even tho you cannot prove it? There is a great site called www.edge.org/, where this question is posed. The replies from scientists and science-minded thinkers of this time are fascinating to read.
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"We all have hunches, beliefs we can barely explain, or even simply hopes or dreams that some might think of as crazy, or scoff at as irrational, or unproven. But that's just the point of hunches, isn't it? Sometimes we're even right. Diderot called the gift of those who guess the truth before being able to prove it the 'esprit de divination'.
hich is why the latest "grand question" posed by the publisher of the scientific website edge.org, John Brockman, to 120 scientists and thinkers, is so wonderful: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"
The answers, which spill to 60,000 words and were published this week, provide a fascinating insight into conjecture - and the power of imagination. Even the empirically driven, it seems, have their own leaps of faith.
Many scientists and researchers believe in the unseen and the unknown - in true love, the power of a child's mind, in the existence of aliens"
I believe that when I die, like in a walt whitman poem I read once, if you want to see me "looks at the soles of your shoes, as in one big recycling, I will return to earth...thats it. And don't even think about setting me on fire
I think most of you will find some of the replies to this question at the site worth reading.
http://www.edge.org/
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"We all have hunches, beliefs we can barely explain, or even simply hopes or dreams that some might think of as crazy, or scoff at as irrational, or unproven. But that's just the point of hunches, isn't it? Sometimes we're even right. Diderot called the gift of those who guess the truth before being able to prove it the 'esprit de divination'.
hich is why the latest "grand question" posed by the publisher of the scientific website edge.org, John Brockman, to 120 scientists and thinkers, is so wonderful: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"
The answers, which spill to 60,000 words and were published this week, provide a fascinating insight into conjecture - and the power of imagination. Even the empirically driven, it seems, have their own leaps of faith.
Many scientists and researchers believe in the unseen and the unknown - in true love, the power of a child's mind, in the existence of aliens"
I believe that when I die, like in a walt whitman poem I read once, if you want to see me "looks at the soles of your shoes, as in one big recycling, I will return to earth...thats it. And don't even think about setting me on fire
I think most of you will find some of the replies to this question at the site worth reading.
http://www.edge.org/
