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I want to know. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 47 points 10 months ago

I want to know Carl Sagan too.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

In the biblical sense?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him. Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.

[-] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

In object oriented onthology, to know is him is to be him.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's 2010 hippy mumbo jumbo -- to know his name in an associated-array is more than enough to know it is him

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Giggity

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Well ain't that a pickle. It all depends on your knowledge.vs.belief position when it comes to the topic of afterlife.

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 22 points 10 months ago

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

― Nicholas Butler

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 months ago

This is a real picture of Sagan, taken right after he memorized the recipe for an apple pie.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 14 points 10 months ago

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 10 months ago

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Source unclear, often attributed to Richard Feynman.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago

i don'Ł wanŁ Ło beliere

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

U+237C

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly pretty aesthetic way to write the 't'. Bet it feels great too.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

... and if I can't find the answers, I want to accept what I don't know or will never know

It all goes back to a prayer or mantra I learned a long time ago in addictions recovery

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference"

There are a lot of old timers and religious people who originally started this with the word 'God' but in recent years, it's been changed by some to allow a less religious connotation. It doesn't mean anyone is less religious, or less spiritual, or better or worse .. it is just an acceptance of things we can't change, having the courage to change when we should and having the wisdom to know the difference.

It's a mantra and a saying that I live by.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

I think this is already contained in Stoicism, an important root of Christianity.

[-] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Who doesnt know anything, has to believe everything

[-] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

How about I want to have my inference process to negate error bound to my priors?

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

This is why people preferred Mulder.

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Mulder wasn't blind faith, though. Mulder was, "I know I saw some shit and I'm gonna prove it's real."

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

-- Marcellus Wallace

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I was trying to find out what year this was from, hoping for the possibility at least that it was a dunk on X Files. Instead I found totally not automated, manually curated pages like this:

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