The Danger of Dogma

it said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers that's false tragically false look for yourself this is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz this is where people were turned into numbers into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people and that was not done by gas it was done by arrogance it was done by dogma it was done by ignorance when people believe that they have absolute knowledge with no test in reality this is how they behave this is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of God's sands is a very human form of knowledge we are always at the brink of the known we always feel forward for what is to be hoped every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible in the end the words were sent by Oliver Cromwell I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken I owe it as a scientist to my friend Leo's alarmed I owe it as a human being to the many members of my family who died here to stand here as a survivor and a witness we have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power we have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act we have to touch people

Channel: fishy paw

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Keywords: Jacob, Bronowski, Science, PWNS, God, absolute, knowledge, subtlitles

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Length: 2min 28sec (148 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 11 2014