I think science requires "faith" on a more basic level than just complex ideas. Scientists rely on sense experience to interpret all their data and posit all their results. Whether it is empirical tests or mathematical proofs, they rely on the senses. It is purely by faith that we trust that our sense experience is accurate. Lest we all end up skeptics, humans have generally accepted that our sense experience is telling us the truth, but there is no empirical or mathematical way to prove this. Everyone, scientists or not, take our basic mode of interacting with the world, on faith, as true. Failing to do so leaves us without any means of understanding the world around us, scientifically or not.

I think the Dead Parrot sketch is a culmination of the best Python has to offer. So freakin good.

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