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1 Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward

2 The Beginning of Infinity

3 Nullius in Verba

4 Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe

5 Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

6 We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge

7 People Are a Force of Nature

8 It’s Impossible to Predict the Growth of Knowledge

9 Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things 1

10 Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary

11 Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary

12 There Is No End of Science

13 There Is No Settled Mathematics

14 The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible

15 All Knowledge Is Conjectural

16 Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous

17 Every Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate

18 We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics

19 Probability Is Subjective

20 Is Light a Particle or a Wave

21 The Multiverse

22 We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen

23 Science Expands Our Vision of Reality

24 Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism

25 Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions

26 Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures

27 Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

28 It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories

29 We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance

30 It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

31 Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position

32 Rational Optimism Is the Way Out

33 Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity