Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Quote of the day

As a break from the regular content of this blog:

"Wise people learn from their mistakes. Brilliant people learn from the mistakes of others".

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Why is there something rather than nothing (Part 1)

Why is there something rather than nothing?

or

Why does anything at all exist?

These two questions are basically asking the same thing, and I see them as the ultimate philosophical questions. It's a question I ponder from time to time, and one which is equally incomprehensible as it is unanswerable.

I've added "Part 1" in brackets because I'm anticipating that I'll be discussing this question more than once on this blog. Some of the questions which are somewhat subsets of this question are:

- What is nothing?
- Is nothing possible?
- Does it make sense to speak of nothing?
- Is science capable of answering this question?
- Does this question even necessarily have an answer?