Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
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We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.