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Feeling of certainty is dangerous for religion and science: Weber

TEHRAN Professor Eric Thomas Weber says “the fundamental problem with the feeling and ideal of certainty is that it stops us from learning.”

“The feeling of certainty makes us comfortable, but it is also dangerous, both in religion and in science,” Weber tells the Tehran Times.
 
Following is the text of the interview:
The Enlightenment in the West contributed both to human progress and to modernity’s problems. Enlightenment thinkers embraced the scientific method… Read more

Tehran Times

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