George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno — Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Joy of Ignorance
The opposite of faith is certainty. If you're sure about something, then you don't need faith. And that's true in science as well as anything else. In ot sa, george, faith is a verb, not a noun. But what george is saying about the joy of ignorance, this is an old tradition that goes back wile socrates himself. You know why we call it dark energy? Because our brains are dark. We're in the dark about it. Ask omen, that's as ignorant as you can get, ok? I mean, it challenges gravity, whichis very fundamental to all our understanding,. always has been, since newton. How more
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