This is my last word on this, as it now seems to be headed more for a topic suited to general talk.
The quote, "wisest is he...", comes from Socrates, who decided that the entire corpus of his knowledge was intrinsically worthless as he couldn't, in the last analysis, be sure of its validity. I agree wholeheartedly with this: certainty about anything is the drug of extremism whether philosophical or religious. I too, believe somethings to be right or wrong, (for example, I to am an atheist) but in the final instance, they remain just that - beliefs - ontological methods to divine one thing or another merely uncover the researcher's prejudices. As long as we accept that, I don't see a problem.
I agree with you that I will never discover these things, but by engendering a spirit of inquisitiveness in the young, to be as open-minded as possible so that no doors are closed, I hope that they will.
Regards
Nigel
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