What Is The Most Significant Obstacle To Human Progress? [1]

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Mike Sygula, Contributor
Waking Times [3]

“Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance.” - Albert Einstein

Refusing to open your mind to new ideas, however bizarre they might seem, is arguably the most serious impediment to human progress.

Let us examine this claim by reviewing the following points:

Paradigm Shifts

If we study the history of scientific discoveries we can often observe turning points where our understanding of our reality has been transformed even though these new theories had often originally been ridiculed and rejected. Time and time again throughout human history, these pioneers of new thinking have been condemned or even imprisoned...