A Critique of Science

[roryism]

Science has become the new religion. God is dead and science is merely a substitute filling the void. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake makes just as little sense as goodness for its own sake, and can be equally harmful. If we're going to ask "goodness for what purpose?" we must also ask the same of knowledge. Scientists too often act as

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[damnedmana]

=\ I don't mind knowing how every little thing in our world works...in fact it kind of reassures me that we are real.

Maybe people really are scared of the unkown, maybe that's why they drive themselves to be "knowledge addicts".

Blah, I don't know what I'm talking about. My feet love you.

[pink_theory]

People being scared of what they do not know has always been the problem, the basis for our species' "evolution". We all find power in 'knowledge', and the more you know, the more powerful you must be. But wtf?...humans are in a race with no one(not that we know of anyway, and if we don't know it wtf) to learn everything first

[danbroussard]

i saw a lecture a few months ago with the physicist Freeman Dyson who is most well know for his work with the quantum atom said to produce gravity. The Graviton. His lecture explained a little about the atmosphere surrounding particle physics today and much of the scientific community. He studied on the same college campus as einstein when Al was in his decline. He explained that einstein lived out the last handful of his years in a very morose state, denying quantum physics and hopelessly trying to unify as much of science mathematics relativity and physics as he could