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The final bit about assimilating knowledge of the past ...
"Do we live in a fortunate golden age of Cosmology that allows us, thanks to our technical advances and our trained researchers, to answer questions on eternity, finiteness of the Universe, etc.? We could reply as the XIXth century German philosopher Schopenhauer did with the Know-alls of his time:
"Every 30 years, a new generation of talkative candid persons, ignorant of everything, want to devour summarily and hastily the results of human knowledge accumulated over centuries, and immediately they think themselves more skillful than the whole past.”"
Hmmm .. a bit of an axe to grind there, methinks !!
I don't mind devouring the knowledge of the past ... but that's only a tiny slice of what there is gain in the present .. and take into the future. And perhaps what we do with that knowledge enables us to define our own personal 'wisdom'? (see Bert's comments on the EU thread).
Cheers
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