What We Believe but Cannot Prove

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe

What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?

Those very men and women who castigated us for our insistence on some cloudy notion that was not subject to the holy trinity of blind, controlled, and randomized testing are at last bending the knee to declare their faith.

His plan was to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world together in a room, lock them in, and “have them ask each other the questions they were asking themselves.”

Byars inspired the idea of Edge and is responsible for its motto:
To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and interesting minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

In the future, we will be able to answer the questions—but will we be bright enough to ask them?

has been surprisingly difficult to establish definitively what the truth is about any matter, however simple.

Proof, whether in science, philosophy, criminal court or daily life, is an elastic concept, i

has this imaginative stage but then it goes on to the proving stage, the demonstrating stage.

It would be entirely wrong to suggest that science is something that knows everything already. Science proceeds by having hunches, by making guesses, by having hypotheses, sometimes inspired by poetic thoughts, by aesthetic thoughts even,