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Samuel Arbesman: Between Knowledge and Wonder S2 E9

Meditations with Zohar

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The Importance of a Worldview in Science

I think broadly like any question that's a question of why is harder to verify or falsify because by definition the why is a theory. And so if your worldview is that the earth is the center of the universe, then for a long time you'll be able to sustain that worldview despite the facts. But ideally though, it's in presumably as more and more facts accumulate that kind of be that call into question the framework that you have. So there's this great quote from Isaac Asimov where he was corresponding with someone about, how do we know anything? "We're kind of like asymptotically approaching some sort of like description of reality"

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