John Brockman

What We Believe but Cannot Prove

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  • kikyhas quoted6 years ago
    Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe
  • Ditas Veghas quoted9 years ago
    What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted6 years ago
    Those very men and women who castigated us for our insistence on some cloudy notion that was not subject to the holy trinity of blind, controlled, and randomized testing are at last bending the knee to declare their faith.
  • Kuat Abeshevhas quoted7 years ago
    His plan was to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world together in a room, lock them in, and “have them ask each other the questions they were asking themselves.”
  • Kuat Abeshevhas quoted7 years ago
    Byars inspired the idea of Edge and is responsible for its motto:
    To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and interesting minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
  • Nicat Qasımovhas quoted7 years ago
    In the future, we will be able to answer the questions—but will we be bright enough to ask them?
  • Ditas Veghas quoted9 years ago
    has been surprisingly difficult to establish definitively what the truth is about any matter, however simple.
  • Ditas Veghas quoted9 years ago
    Proof, whether in science, philosophy, criminal court or daily life, is an elastic concept, i
  • Ditas Veghas quoted9 years ago
    has this imaginative stage but then it goes on to the proving stage, the demonstrating stage.
  • Ditas Veghas quoted9 years ago
    It would be entirely wrong to suggest that science is something that knows everything already. Science proceeds by having hunches, by making guesses, by having hypotheses, sometimes inspired by poetic thoughts, by aesthetic thoughts even,
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