{"id":33202,"date":"2013-04-16T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/uncertainty.html"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:04:11","slug":"uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/uncertainty.html","title":{"rendered":"(Un)Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"
'Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only by incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don\u2019t know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness.'<\/i><\/p>\n

— Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), \u201cAn Agnostic\u2019s Apology,\u201d Fortnightly Review<\/i> (1876)<\/div>\n

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'Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? 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