"2000 of years ago we knew that Earth was flat. 1500 years ago we knew that earth was the centre of Universe. Now we know that Earth is a tiny planet in the solar system, which in turn is far away from the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Tomorrow we don't know what all things will be in our knowledge base".
I got the above quotes from the semi comedy movie 'MIB' (Men in Black). These are not the exact dialogue from the movie. Even though the story of MIB is fiction, the above dialogue caught my attention. I remembered the statement; 'Today’s fiction is tomorrow’s reality'.
When people believed that earth was flat and there is an edge for the flat earth, they never traveled too far, in the fear of falling from the edge of the earth. When people believed that stars and moon were tiny spots fixed on the 'layer sky', they never thought of landing on the moon, the tiny disc fixed up in the sky. When humans knew that earth is round, we tried and succeeded in traveling around the globe. Again when we knew that moon and stars are spherical objects in the endless sky, we started exploring moon and other planets which revolved around sun.
Yesterday we didn't think in the way we are thinking at present, because what we knew then was not what we know now. Today we are thinking only in limited directions, because currently what we know limits us from thinking and exploring in some other directions. Tomorrow we will think of some strange things which we have never thought at present and it will not be strange things any more. We believe that what our ancestors knew was wrong. The same way we should believe that what we believe now is completely wrong and our predecessors will find better truth, which will explain many things in a better way.
So how can we say that knowledge is power? Our knowledge now seems to be a limitation for us. Our current knowledge limits us from thinking though we think that we think a lot. Knowledge is a limitation? So we can think about an ultimate truth, above which nothing exists further which if we know will make us think correct. But we already said that what we think is wrong. So we cannot think about such an ultimate truth. But we cannot blame the people who are in search of truth, since they are the one who thinks in strange way, breaking the limitations of our thinking imposed by our knowledge. Eventually they will find new truths which will definitely rule out existing truth. But time will rule out those truths also.
very true deepu!!!
ReplyDeletetoday we might think transportation at the wink of an eye is unreal, but tomorrow it might be possible, likepeople who vanish in star trek and reappear in another spot. Actually I feel such sci- fiction movies are really a motivation and guideline for scientists to work on and discover new things which we might be using in daily life.
Good thinking!!
Hi Deepu!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting yaar, I had exams so was busy, i have one tomorrow also but it was really boring so took a break
I though i am the only person not blogging, whats this wheres ur next one "still in drafts section?"
Post soon
cya around
Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteNewton said:
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton
At best we have found a few pebbles since Newton. We don't know about the boulders of knowledge, and can't conceive of the sea beyond.
Thanks for the reminder.
Allan
Yes, very keen. There is no truth, so don't hide for the truth because it doesn't exist.
ReplyDeleteI mean especially hiding for religious fanatics.
But if you wnat something to kappen it will happen, maybe not today but then tomorrow. That the stanginess about truth.
It's true, it happens to me all the time.