I Agree, Along With Carl Sagan, That

If All Our Common-sense Notions About The Universe Were Correct, Then Science Would Have Solved The Secrets Of The Universe Thousands Of Years Ago. The Purpose Of Science Is To Peel Back The Layer Of The Appearance Of The Objects To Reveal Their Underlying Nature. In Fact, If Appearance And Essence Were The Same Thing, There Would Be No Need For Science.

Think Of All The Nonsense You Had To Learn In Psychology Courses. None Of Which Was Testable. None Of Which Was Measurable. We Had Behaviorism, Freudian Psychology, All Of These Theories That You Learn In Psychology. Totally Untestable. Now, We Can Test It, Because Physics Allows Us To Calculate Energy Flows In The Brain.

The Brain Weighs Only Three Pounds, Yet It Is The Most Complex Object In The Solar System.

The Media, Of Course, Loves To Make Claims About The Fountain Of Youth. Don't Believe It. No One Has It. But We're Getting Close.

The Strength And Weakness Of Physicists Is That We Believe In What We Can Measure. And If We Can't Measure It, Then We Say It Probably Doesn't Exist. And That Closes Us Off To An Enormous Amount Of Phenomena That We May Not Be Able To Measure Because They Only Happened Once. For Example, The Big Bang. ... That's One Reason Why They Scoffed At Higher Dimensions For So Many Years. Now We Realize That There's No Alternative.