Justin Duda: Topic 7: Are There Limits to Science?

I find the question raised by the last group of the 
Speaker's Corner to be very interesting. Is there a 
limited amount of scientific knowledge that can be 
gained, or is knowledge limitless? 
	This is one of those questions that I feel humans 
bring up that they will never have a chance of 
answering. It is just a means for an argument. How is 
a species as ignorant and insignificant as us ever to 
know whether or not knowledge has an end? I find the 
question funny, because we will never get close to 
the end even if there were an end. Whenever we find 
something out we continue to ask "how?", and "why?" 
This could lead on and on into infinity. I'm sure we 
will all destroy ourselves far before we could ever 
get far enough into the realm of scientific knowledge 
to find a real answer to this question. 
	Is the universe unlimited? This would seem to say 
that knowledge were unlimites, as the group said with 
astronomy. Again we will never know... We can't even 
get to the next closest planet! I think it is 
comforting to think that the universe is unlimited. 
This gives the appearance of a world in which there 
is an infinite number of possibilities and choices. 
	One thing that I wasn't sure about was the place 
of anthropology and archealogy in this presentation. 
These are social sciences, not "hard sciences". There 
could never be an end to knowledge gained in the 
social sciences, as long as there remains a society 
to study.
	All in all a good job. And I think it's safe to 
say that we all love Wilson.