Sometimes people take this statement about the limitation of scientific knowledge as being defeatist: “If we can't get to the bottom of things, why bother?” This kind of response is misplaced. There is nothing defeatist in understanding the limitations of the scientific approach to knowledge. Science remains our best methodology to build consensus about the workings of nature. What should change is a sense of scientific triumphalism—the belief that no question is beyond the reach of scientific discourse.
Somewhere on my list of things to do is to write a blog post with the deliberately clickbaity (but accurate) title of "This Equation Shows You Can't Quantify Everything"....
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-can-we-know/
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