(June 9, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Alex K Wrote:(June 9, 2015 at 4:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: And, as I have stated already, I appreciate the fact that you understand the limits of your subject and are averse to pretending that you know things that you do not know. People who speak as though they know everything are automatically not believable.
Bah. How painful to witness bigshot professors not admitting when they don't know something in public talks because they think it hurts their reputation as these towering intellects. I've seen it so many times and it's always embarrassing, because usually the audience isn't quite fooled by it.
But I don't only hope to understand the limits of my subject, but also the limits of my knowledge of my subject, which is possibly harder
Yes. It is revolting when people are unwilling to admit that they do not know things that they do not know.
And, as I have already stated, that is not you. It is one of the reasons why I am almost ready to believe anything you say about physics. Everything you have stated seems reasonable (well, as reasonable as physics sounds in the past hundred years, which, honestly, all sounds crazy), and you have been clear about not wanting to go beyond, to some grand magical bullshit nonsense. I respect that.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
