Natural sciences teach modesty
Great spirits in dialogue. "Aeons ago, two black holes collided in the depths of space, triggering a tremor of space-time, which on its journey through the universe finally passed us on Earth... A sentence formulated by Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus of physics at MIT and Nobel Prize winner in 2017, one of the discoverers of gravitational waves. And this sentence would probably have pleased Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1873, during his time as professor of philosophy in Basel, wrote the following
A Nietzsche remark before the "invention" of astrophysics, which churches certainly don't like, but new technology emperors like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg shouldn't like either...
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4 年“Our transient existence has lasted for less than 10 one-billionths of cosmic history so far on a tiny rock we call Earth, surrounded by a vast lifeless space. We should be thankful for the fortuitous circumstances that allow us to exist, because they will surely go away one day, with or without COVID-19.“ (Avi Loew on #Scientificamerican.com on April 18, 2020). Avi Loeb is chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.