Tag: Hypothesis

Pathological Disbelief and Intellectual Terror

On By Gregory HakeIn Health and Wellness Matters12 Comments

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."  ~ Isaac Asimov One of the great obstacles to progress in scientific understanding was well described by Nobel Prize-winning Cambridge emeritus professor Brian Josephson as "pathological disbelief." Josephson used the term …

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Altruism is Possible and Altruism is Real

On By Gregory HakeIn Observations on Life10 Comments

I read a fascinating article in the New York Times called "Is Pure Altruism Possible?" The article's author, Judith Lichtenberg, is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University who is writing a book on charity and her interest seems to be in part to discover ways to increase altruism in the world today. While much …

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