Thursday, December 26, 2013

Silly rhetoric

Scientists feel they are facing a new era of limits even as the universe itself is screaming to be explored. - headline, Washington Post website, December 26, 2013

Really? We're supposed to believe that the universe has lately cranked up its clamoring for us to discover its mysteries?  (And I thought that was just my tinnitus worsening.)

In some ways, though more respectable than most, scientific knowledge is like any other addiction. There is always more, and the more you have the more you want. This is the danger of every false idol we deify.

No comments:

Post a Comment