_rimusa_
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"There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inc...
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"There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inc...
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What Carl Sagan meant was that a theory must be the least complex one, give us experimental predictions which must be proven to be correct and yield the same results as previous experiments in order to be considered truthful. This means that a in the future new theories might debunk the ones we already have.
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"There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inc...
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Well, that's not true al all, if you don't believe me, just ask any of these scientists whose theories were once some of those "sacred truths" you mention: Thales' solar system, Lamarck's evolutionary theory, Kepler's & Newton's laws of movement & gravity, Freud's... well, almost everything that guy said... among many other scientists and theories.
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