Life is Short and There is No Certainty - July 21, 2016
Another Sean Carroll witticism from his book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself.
Excepting death, I would argue. Something you can always count on and perhaps why it holds so much fascination for some of us. The thing we learn to avoid thinking about, imagining, talking about, and yet the one certainty, at least so far as we know.
Aha, Prof. Carroll, your statement is a contradiction, an untrue statement, since if life is always short (ending in death) then certainty does happen. And ... certainty never happens is a paradoxical statement. Did I miss my calling?
Excepting death, I would argue. Something you can always count on and perhaps why it holds so much fascination for some of us. The thing we learn to avoid thinking about, imagining, talking about, and yet the one certainty, at least so far as we know.
Aha, Prof. Carroll, your statement is a contradiction, an untrue statement, since if life is always short (ending in death) then certainty does happen. And ... certainty never happens is a paradoxical statement. Did I miss my calling?
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