Gawfinkle: The mathematicians give us four ideas of what proof would be if we could find it. He says the physicists give us a variety of models, all of which contradict common sense. Gawfinkle: Social scientists can't find out whether we can find anything without being hopelessly warped in the process of communicating with others.
Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982
[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
"The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit."
"One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past."
"Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia."
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