“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes
― John Maynard Keynes
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I like it.
This is the essence of any honest person, whether he/she be a scientist or otherwise.Some people never change their mind about anything at all, and think this makes them "assertive". It doesn't. It just makes them look stubborn in the face of new evidence.
"Sometimes its not a lie, the truth just changes"I like it.
Some people never change their mind about anything at all, and think this makes them "assertive". It doesn't. It just makes them look stubborn in the face of new evidence.
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"The speculative nature of scientific thought was brought home to the Dalai Lama most clearly through hearing about the work of Thomas Kuhn, who wrote about how paradigms shift in science. . . . From this, the Dalai Lama saw, we must take scientific truths not as absolute and unchanging, but as theories that can become outdated if they do not fit new facts. . . . The self-correcting process through which science continues to sharpen in pursuit of truth parallels the very spirit of Buddhist logic in which the Dalai Lama is steeped. 'In a way, the methodologies of Buddhist thought and science are essentially similar.' "
Destructive Emotions and How We Can Overcome Them: A Dialogue With the Dalai Lama p. 38 (Bloomsbury Publishing 2004).
