Good Morning Friends !
During past week, three things have inspired me:
Quote
“ All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge. ”
~ David Deutsch
Idea
Most of the cruelty and injustice in the world doesn’t come from people being born evil, it comes from people acting on wrong beliefs. When someone flies a plane into a building thinking they’ll be rewarded in the afterlife, or when a parent refuses life saving medicine for their child because of blind faith, the problem isn’t hate, it’s misinformation. When beliefs are protected from questions and facts, people can commit terrible acts while thinking they are doing good. Ignorance especially when dressed up as truth then becomes a powerful engine for suffering.
Systems like regionalism, communism, racism, or even aggressive capitalism, often claim to have all the answers. But when these systems reject facts and silence doubt, they break down. A society that punishes scientists for disagreement ends up with food shortages and broken hospitals. A society that treats people unfairly because of their skin-color, caste, sex or religion blocks talent, wastes potential, and feeds anger. When any “-ism” becomes more important than reality, it starts to rot from the inside. False ideas, when followed blindly, create real damage.
Science, unlike dogma, doesn’t demand loyalty, it demands evidence. It can be tested, improved, and corrected. That’s why it works. Clean water, safe medicines, satellites, and even the mobile in your hand all came from asking honest questions and testing ideas. The more we learn, the better choices we make. If we replace superstition with understanding, and prejudice with curiosity, we can build a world that’s safer, fairer, and kinder with abundant resources. Evil shrinks when truth grows. The truth grows fastest when we apply science with humility and courage.
Book
Richard Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality is a must read for all young readers. It explores questions we all wonder about like how the world began, why the sun shines, or where rainbows come from. Instead of relying on old myths or magical stories, Richard explains how science helps us find real answers. The book starts by explaining the difference between stage tricks, supernatural magic, and the kind of “magic” that science reveals.
Each chapter looks at a question humans have asked for centuries. Richard talks about how humans and animals came to exist, why there are so many different species, and how everything is made of tiny particles called atoms. He explains natural events like day and night, seasons, earthquakes, and the formation of rainbows not with made-up tales, but with facts from astronomy, physics, and geology. The book also explores the birth of the universe with the Big Bang, the power of the sun through nuclear fusion, and the search for life beyond Earth. Even everyday things like how we see colors or feel earthquakes become fascinating when science uncovers the real reasons behind them.
Richard also tackles emotional questions like why bad things happen or what people call miracles. He explains that disasters and illnesses aren't punishments from gods, but natural events arising out of causes that we can study. So called miracles, he says, are often just things we don’t understand yet or rare events that science might one day explain. The universe is full of mysteries, not because it’s unknowable, but because we’re only just beginning to understand. Truly its the beginning of infinity !
Have a Wonderful Week !