...We had plenty of evidence for all kinds of stuff before Hubble. We now have more evidence. We are edging towards certainty on many things. But we can never say that we've got there.
There's a difference between what exists, and what we can say to exist. It's the latter clause that's important here. 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must pass over in silence' captures it, I think.
(There's a difference between what exists, and what we can say to exist. It's the latter clause that's important here. 'Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must pass over in silence' captures it, I think.
Enzyme is powered by sunlight,
Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:44,
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now thatis a glorious seam of sense in a gravel mine of inaccurate theory.
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Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:50,
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...If only I could claim it as mine. Sadly, 'tis Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, para 7).
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight,
Fri 22 Feb 2008, 13:53,
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