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How is knowledge based on uncertainty?

Science is that facet of the quest for order, meaning and predictability in reality; as a source of knowledge its pursuit and findings are dominating our lives today.

Science involves a method for understanding, describing and verifying knowledge, less than certain information about the natural world.

We are the heirs of an unfathomable ancient legacy of dreams, mistakes and hunches gone wrong. I call the product of this rich legacy modern science as such science is a method of detecting errors in what we know as we embark on a process to discover a sublime meaning to our conscious existence in an immense universal emptiness.

Ian Tattersall | Richard Feynman | Jacob Bronowski | Stephen Hawking | Ernst Mayr

Zeitgeist - the spirit of the times - "an unscientific age of science" or technological idolatry of contemporary thought.

Worldview - weltanschauung - the erroneous impressions we have of the world as opposed the underlying verity which is manifest as the reality of existence.

Uncertainty is a spectrum along which we all travel.

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