In this thought-provoking video, physicist Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the joy of living without knowing everything, thus minimizing falsehoods:
The thrill and challenge of not knowing
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:December 26, 2009
- Post category:Meaning of Life / scientific method
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Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
There is also much hope and freedom in the acknowledgment that we don't know everything.