Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude. Robert Anton Wilson
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I believe that scientists should be willing to change their minds on the basis of new evidence, even if it contradicts what they thought they knew. I do not believe that there are certain things that exist in the universe, or that there are certain truths about the universe, or that there is one last model of reality -- or any other kind of absolutist worldview. I do not believe that reality is fundamentally divided into two mutually-exclusive categories: "real" and "not real." I do not believe that reality is essentially objective.

Source: Cosmic Trigger: Die Letzten Geheimnisse Der Illuminaten Oder An Den Grenzen Des Erweiterten Bewusstseins

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