The Myth of Perfect Knowledge

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser.

Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective.

This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be wrong about anything, even the basic facts of our own lives."