"Science promotes and thrives on open-mindedness because the advancement of our understanding about the reality in which we exist depends upon our willingness to accept new ideas."
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
--Henry Beston, 1928
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I would disagree with that. People typically tend to be either extremely open to new ideas, or are unwilling to hear anything at all.
People who are extremely "open minded" will accept any evidence whether it actually be true or not., i.e. conspiracy theory.
Those who are extremely closed minded will be critical of any evidence.
It is very important to have a good balance of both kinds of people as to have checks and balances.
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