By certainty people usually mean a refusal to look at evidence…

By certainty people usually mean a refusal to look at evidence that doesn’t accord with their existing prejudices.  2+2 = 4 is an enclosed garden of certainty but not much else.  Even the greatest scientists turned out to be wrong about their own great discoveries. Galileo thought the sun (or more accurately a mathematical point close by the sun) was at the centre of the universe.  Newton thought his laws of motion covered all motion.  Einstein didn’t accept quantum physics till his last breath even though his own discoveries let the way to it.  And most of all Darwin mistook the significance of his own discovery as I tried to explain in my book ‘Loveliest of Men:  Darwin and the tragedy of The Origin of Species

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