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[alextemplet]

I think it's more a matter of people believing that science represents some ultimate good and can therefor be studied entirely for its own sake. It's a product of blind faith, if you ask me.

[volcob]

But isn't it already enough to at least stop at a point and realize, "hey! I think that must be all for now" However it's not. We do ANYTHING for the sake of this knowledge. It seems that the quest for this knowledge is exponentially progressing. We had the atom and we are searching more far in the outerspace, but still we are destined grow old , our body weakens,terminate to death. I do not want to sound biblical here, but in the book of Job and Ecclesiastes, we humans always thirst for more and we have so many questions though no matter we strive more, all and everything we have done will be soon forgotten then. The facts we discover will be just replaced by another fact. And everything will be just in pages that are soon to be aged and simply be over and done.

it is often said that human cannot content himself.

but should we? others say that those who are contented are those who does not dream or have no ambition at all..

i thought for example of Edison "the bulb maker"

he was never satisfied with what was established at his time.(some people or scientist had then said that everything that has to be discovered had already been discovered)

had those scientist and inventors who preceded him thought of those above then maybe were still in hunting and gathering or in the castle age if were not gone yet

for us, we have gone far but for the generations to come, we are left behind

[mcar]

Volcob wrote:but should we? others say that those who are contented are those who does not dream or have no ambition at all

Dreaming is good, however, some of the dreams in their realization could really impose the destruction of the dreamer. The question would be, how can we realize our dreams with less pain with one another?

[alextemplet]

Not just less pain to one another but also to our surrounding environment. Our power to influence and change the earth gives us a serious responsibility to protect it.

[mcar]

alextemplet wrote: Not just less pain to one another but also to our surrounding environment. Our power to influence and change the earth gives us a serious responsibility to protect it.

If we lead our home to its great destruction--all of our gains from endeavor we made will just come to nothing afterall.

[mcar]

I have read this one. I think that it's also related to this topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-lede-t.html
http://cognews.com/1195706816