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THE MAN OF UNDERSTANDING will accept that insecurity is the very fabric of life,

and that not knowing is the counterpart of the miraculous and the mysterious

existence. We know nothing. All that we know is very superficial, and all that

we know goes on changing. That which seems to be so certain today becomes

uncertain tomorrow.

 

Have you observed that for almost thirty years, no big volumes on science have

been written? Only periodicals, monthly publications.... And people don't write

big books for the simple reason that by the time their book is finished, it will

be out of date -- so great is the explosion. All old theories become wrong; new

theories come in. All old hypotheses drop dead; new hypotheses arise like the

phoenix, out of the ashes of the old hypotheses. And they know perfectly well

that these are also going to fall.

 

If you are trying to write a complete history of something scientific, you are

wasting time. So scientists only write papers, not books; they read papers, not

books, because a paper can be read in a university or at a conference of

scientists. At least it is real, true at that moment; nobody knows about

tomorrow. People used to think that Albert Einstein will never be refuted. He

has been refuted, he is no longer the giant he used to be. Inch by inch, his

whole theory of relativity has been criticized, and better proposals have come

into being.

 

But now one thing is certain -- because three hundred years' experience of

science shows that no theory is going to become authentic knowledge, it is only

a temporary hypothesis. Somebody with a better intelligence, with more logical

acumen, with better scientific equipment, is going to demolish it.

 

Charles Darwin is no longer accepted. The idea that man has come from the

monkeys or apes is very appealing; looking at man, it needs no proof! But for

millions of years, monkeys have remained monkeys, man has remained man. Neither

do we see people falling back towards monkeys -- going up the trees, and growing

tails, and jumping -- nor do we see another modern monkey getting down from the

tree, standing on two feet, and declaring, "Now I am a human being."

 

There has not been a single scientific theory which has remained true.

Everything has changed, and everything is changing so fast that perhaps in the

future it will not be possible to read even papers.

 

 

 

 

 

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