
Episode #041 ... Belief
Philosophize This!
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The Great Engine of Hypothesis
Both the scientist and the philosopher are brilliant, but they're brilliant in very different ways. It takes a different kind of brilliance to come up with new theories or recognize assumptions that we might be making in science currently. Voltaire was fine with this. He thought, look, maybe science will never be able to answer these questions fully. But when he was in doubt about something, he really liked to quote that was popular by sir isaac newton: Doubt is an unpleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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