🌱 The Half-life of Facts

We can never be too sure of what we know

Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else

the accumulation of knowledge can then lead us to a fuller and more accurate picture of the world around us

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.