Tag: epistemology, philosophy, science

After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 – 2005), who in his book ‘Relativity and Common Sense’ says:… The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.

Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth … but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 – 2005), who in his book ‘Relativity and Common Sense’ says:… The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?