"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
-William Shakespeare
Though doubt could be a hindrance to a person's spiritual progress. Doubting is a sign of thinking. But the antidote for doubt is not blind faith. Certainty of conviction is founded on individual experience or scientific reasoning.
While a child may doubt the accuracy of the multiplication table, but through mathematical experiment and reasoning, his doubts could easily be cleared up and believes that the statements in the multiplication table is true.
He believes that 2x2 is equal to 4, not merely because he has been told so, but because it has become to him a self-evident fact through his first hand experience and scientific reasoning.
And this is exactly the method, and the only method, of resolving doubt, through experience and scientific reasoning.
While a child may doubt the accuracy of the multiplication table, but through mathematical experiment and reasoning, his doubts could easily be cleared up and believes that the statements in the multiplication table is true.
He believes that 2x2 is equal to 4, not merely because he has been told so, but because it has become to him a self-evident fact through his first hand experience and scientific reasoning.
And this is exactly the method, and the only method, of resolving doubt, through experience and scientific reasoning.
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