Does mankind know nearly everything that there is to know?

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Or is there a lot more on the horizon to be discovered? And if so, what will it be? This question doesn't belong to a category, it applies to everything.

Glad I asked this question. What do you think we should know that we don't already?

Excellent answers - keep them coming. What about the power of the mind and the arts?

Answer 1

Does mankind know nearly everything that there is to know?
Absolutely not, we know VERY VERY little.

Hell you can still get an argument from people as to whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 4.5 billion years. It's a simple fact, but we still "debate" it.

Or is there a lot more on the horizon to be discovered? ABSOLUTELY, there's an ENTIRE UNIVERSE waiting for us to discover it! While it's true we hardly know anything, we do have a fairly good understanding of some parts of the universe, we think we have an acceptable handle on how to reproduce ourselves, after that things go decidedly downhill.

And if so, what will it be? We will discover everything, in the computer sciences, we will create machines smart enough to create other machines , machine intelligence could be the most important invention in human history.

Nanotechnology allowing our civilization to control the atomic structure of matter would free us forever from the limitations of naturally occurring resources on our world(s), all things would be available provided we had the energy to produce them.

Energy science/physics, learning to produce enough energy for everyone to have a good standard of living is critically important.

Getting off-world, we have an entire galaxy to discover, and we complain about foolish philosophical differences, discovering other worlds, going to those other worlds, and bringing Terran life to a barren galaxy is our destiny, either that or we snuff ourselves before we get out of the cradle.

Glad I asked this question. What do you think we should know that we don't already? As far as what we SHOULD know , we SHOULD know that we have a role in the world and the universe but only if we choose to have one.

As far as the arts are concerned, they are what make us truely unique as a species, mathematics , arts and science are the unique province of mankind. Should we discover a thousand populated worlds with aliens on every corner, there will only ever have been one Picasso, one Einstein, on Da Vinci one Confucius

Answer 2

'The clever men at Oxford know all there's to be knowed. But none of them know half as much as incredible Mr Toad.' Kennth Grahame- The Wind in the willows.

Of course we don't know nearly everything that there is to know. We never have done and never will. That's like the person who said 'Everything that can be invented has already been invented'. Do you know what new books, videogames, films, paintings, buildings, fashions etc will be created in the future? Do you know what a worm thinks? Do you know where every worm is? Do you remember everything that you have ever thought?

Even if there was a way to find out all the answers to the infinite number of possible questions, many questions would not have an objectively correct answer and mankind would spent eternity constantly answering questions, only ever scratching the tiniest part of the surface of all possible questions. How many people care to know why I chose to have a cheese sandwich last night rather than something else, why the cheese was not a different variety etc?

Answer 3

We know little about the creation, Healing, the sun, why the universe is expanding, when the end of the world will be, why people are nasty to each other, why people are different, what is beyond the stars, the history of the Dark Ages. There's a few ideas, mankind will never know everything, even cleaver people know their own limitations. Everything there is to know, the mind of God, the only thing that each person knows is that in comparison of the vastness of space and time he or she knows nothing. Any contribution made by any individual is like a single speck of dust in the cosmos. While all men pull in different ways to make the same discoveries and when people retire the earth struggles to find what it has just disguarded mankind will never progress.

Answer 4

Well to start with there is no way that man kind will ever know everything cause it can be done there is not the time in the world for everyone to discoverd and them to understand it.

So no thay will never know everything?

Many people asked that qustion what willl be the next time that mankind will find will at the min it could be anythng cause so many people are doing so much at the min.

Trying to find cure for diseases and trying to work on a way to fix the ozone and other thing's.

But i think what would be a good one is it some one worked out how big space is cause it seam's to be never ending but everything has an end and if that is ture when space end's what start's

Answer 5

There is of course a lot more on the horizon to be discovered. There are many fields in which the entire intrigue of discovery revolves around the infinite nature of that which is to be discovered. And in subjects like religion and philosophy, the impossibility of absolute knowledge is accepted before the pursuit of such knowledge even begins. Even if we decide that we know everything there is to know, I have no doubt that there is another unknown layer to the universe that would throw all of our current knowledge on it's head and require us to begin the process of discovery all over again.

Answer 6

The ultimate chocolate biscuit remains undiscovered. Many have came close, but it is an unabridged cuisine. I'd just like to add that a gaping hole in the universe has been discovered, a billion light years across, with no classic astro-physical answer explainable. But more importantly, I'm waitin on that divine biscuit. Why? It'll bring the greatest minds together over a cuppa and united brainforce.

Answer 7

Well, if you want to raise issues, you could make a case for space flight. I mean, we really don't know how big space really is. We see these things through a telescope or even some mechanical space "eye camera." And I think it's safe to say an astronaut will tell you "It's bigger than the ocean. And scary."
It would be nice to see some sort of "Identified flying saucer" (Meaning US spying on some OTHER lifeform)instead of the UNidentifed ones we see. (THEM spying on US)

Now think about this: What if we would have explored space flight instead of firearms when gun powder was invented?

Answer 8

No one, no matter how long they lived, or how much they studied and experienced, could possibly know everything. There is always something new being discovered (for instance, a new planet, etc.).

Even if all of the world's top experts in every field got together and pooled their knowledge--they would still not know everything there is to know.

Learning is a life-long process--and we will never know everything there is to know--even if we learn 100 new things every day of our lives.

Answer 9

I think mankind doesn't know a LOT of things. Just think about the medical field alone. Think about what can't be cured...what can't even be treated! Think about history we're still guessing about the Egyptians! We don't know the purpose of why we're here...or if there's an after life. It's such a broad thing, we're tiny little things on earth and we have a very small line on the time line of the earth. We don't understand...most things.

Answer 10

Of course not, we are unfinished beings in all possible senses of the word. Chemical substances will be discovered in the future, cures for current illnesses, ways of generating energy and spiritually too there will be new movements for sure. Not once has humanity ceased to advance towards new discoveries. please note I'm not saying progress since I do not believe all of human inventions could be considered as contributing to general progress. Every day we learn something new so there's the simplest answer to your question.