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You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes cover image

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

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The Importance of Ego in Science

We are the eyes of the universe looking at ourselves, experiencing ourselves, caring all of it. It is a little bit of ego in that because it assumes that we are smart enough to actually know everything worth knowing about the universe. Right. Well, suppose there's a billion times deeper knowledge about the universe that our primate brain cannot comprehend. That's what they just came out with that idea that what our eyes are showing us. There's like a zero. They said it was like a very close to zero chance that what we're seeing is reality. We can agree on things that our senses can identify. But science did not mature until it went beyond our senses until it realized, no

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