{"id":2303,"date":"2011-11-23T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2011-11-23T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:38:12","slug":"humans-may-crave-absolute-certainty-they-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/23\/humans-may-crave-absolute-certainty-they-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan,\u00a0<em>The Demon Haunted World<\/em> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/cwnl.tumblr.com\/\">cwnl<\/a>)\nThis is logical progression.\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/havissard.tumblr.com\/\">havissard<\/a>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science \u2014 by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans \u2014 teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science \u2014 by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/23\/humans-may-crave-absolute-certainty-they-may\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}