Quote About Fathers and Wisdom by Umberto Eco
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco on Change and Stagnation
“If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Books, Inquiry and Meaning
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Enemies and Fear
“For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.”
Umberto Eco
Path Dependency of Cosmology – Bjørn Ekeberg
“Contrary to the scientific ideal of getting progressively closer to the truth, it looks rather like cosmology, to borrow a term from technology studies, has become path-dependent: overdetermined by the implications of its past inventions.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Cosmological Paradigm and Mathematical Unification by Bjørn Ekeberg
“The crux of today’s cosmological paradigm is that in order to maintain a mathematically unified theory valid for the entire universe, we must accept that 95 percent of our cosmos is furnished by completely unknown elements and forces for which we have no empirical evidence whatsoever. For a scientist to be confident of this picture requires an exceptional faith in the power of mathematical unification.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Bjørn Ekeberg on the Big Bang Paradigm
“today’s multilayered theoretical edifice of the big bang paradigm would turn out to be a confusing mix of fictional beasts invented to uphold the model, along with empirically valid variables mutually reliant on each other to the point of making it impossible to sort science from fiction.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Big Bang Paradigm and Cosmological Theory by Bjørn Ekeberg
“The big bang paradigm that emerged in the mid-20th century effectively stretches the model’s validity to a kind of infinity […] these limited observations have had an outsized influence on cosmological theory.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Discrepancies Between Observation and Theory – Bjørn Ekeberg
“Each new discrepancy between observation and theory can, of course, in and of itself be considered an exciting promise of more research, a progressive refinement toward the truth. But when they add up, they could also suggest a more confounding problem that is not resolved by tweaking parameters or adding new variables.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Scientific Facts and Overlooked Discrepancies – Bjørn Ekeberg
“This well-known story is usually taken as a self-evident scientific fact, despite the relative lack of empirical evidence—and despite a steady crop of discrepancies arising with observations of the distant universe.”
Bjørn Ekeberg