{"id":761,"date":"2014-01-17T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:34:01","slug":"davy-on-scientific-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/davy-on-scientific-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Davy on Scientific Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our view of science is ultimate, that our triumphs are complete, that there are no mysteries in nature, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
\n\u2014 Humphry Davy<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our view of science is ultimate, that our triumphs are complete, that there are no mysteries in nature, and that there are no new worlds … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Davy on Scientific Progress http:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-ch","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-cs","category-quotes","post_format-post-format-aside","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-ch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1124,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/national-ai-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":761,"position":0},"title":"National AI Strategy","author":"jsylvest","date":"9 October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of my co-workers published a sponsored piece in the Atlantic calling for a national AI strategy,\u00a0which was tied in to\u00a0some discussions at the\u00a0Washington Ideas event. 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