Is Knowledge Resilient?

David Wheeler: I want to read a paragraph from Antonio Stupani's monumental three-volume geology textbook called Curso di Geolucia. He writes that the creation of man is the introduction of a new form of being into nature, a force previously absent from the world. And you've written that knowledge is one of the most resilient things in the universe. Why do you think knowledge is so resilient and perhaps explain the term resilience for those listeners who are unfamiliar with their work because you seem to use it in a deep matter?Wheeler: Yes. This is a nice quote, by the way. It really focuses on this idea that well, humans are one of the things

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