Quote:
Originally Posted by kennyc
Not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine....
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The latter half of that statement is meaningless (with all due respect to Haldane). It (the idea that we are more intelligent and imaginative than our descendants could ever be) is geriatric arrogance plain and simple and usually occurs when really smart people reach the end of their lives knowing there's so much more to be discovered.
Mind you, I'm not saying it is
wrong (i.e. that its negation is correct) - just meaningless one way or the other.
The idea of the "unknowable" is likewise meaningless (not even wrong).
//pet peeve
