Okay. Okay. So let's pick that next word which I also relate to. I would consider myself to be agnostic as well. Agnostic . Um, sure. I I kind of I just don't know. What's your leading view of where all of this stuff came from?It's consistent with observations and experiment. The Big Bang.
is a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or Hindu a Jain or a Buddhist or a Zoroastrian or a Sikh or an agnostic or an atheist.The "Gita" goes so far to say, whether one is a human or an elephant or a cw or a dog or a cat.
Penn: Well, you know an agnostic is a word that I believe from reading the Thomas Huxley biography that came out a little while ago. Agnostic is a word that was developed as a weasel word.Thomas Huxley was Darwin's pit bull.
I don't view my embrace of opposites as a kind of agnosticism, I view it is the way things actually are. An agnostic neither believe, nor disbelieves in God. I'm not that person.
I mean, why can't you just use lithium ion that we have right now? this agnostic pricing stage, that's going to be the point at which-- it's going to start with young people-- but are disgusted
contemplative; it began to be a quest. And I realized that I came out of really a long tradition of making this sort of quest in terms of what I began to see as Agnosticism. And Agnosticism is something that's almost made into a joke. I mean, people of religion make it into a joke because you haven't made the leap of faith if you're an Agnostic ; you simply doubt and you don't know, or you say, "I don't know." And Atheists find it, in many instances, contemptible because you are hedging your bets and taking what Pascal, Blaise Pascal,
to resonate for me in different ways when I began to study the Agnostics . And actually, there are three. I call them, somewhat irreverently, the Trinity of Agnostics . There are three major Agnostic figures in the 20th Century. One of them, of course, is Bertrand Russell, a name many of you know, the Nobel Laureate, mathematician, philosopher, who also called himself an Atheist depending on what his audience was. There was a man named Robert Ingersol who was known as the great Agnostic , who was a stunning orator and an attorney by profession.
to do what it is poised to do. than agnosticism, right?
everything that goes near it gets sucked in. And physicists are quote agnostic . They don't take a position. They simply go
the movie is setting up the tone that something's off, that something's about to go awry. I think technology is agnostic .
And that beyond enzymes became biopharmaceuticals because I felt that I had a lot of very interesting technologies that I developed for enzymes. And if you're agnostic to the fact that an enzyme is a protein and so is a biopharmaceutical a protein, then I felt I could leverage many of these technologies to do something more.
Today, I think women have a large number of role models and examples of how successful women can be. And the body is agnostic to where that mRNA has come from.
And she sat with me. And it's party agnostic .
So "The Baroque Cycle," internally, is eight books. And I'm pretty agnostic as to which approach is used.
So I would say the unconventional investor, while he focuses on intrinsic value, he has a long-term horizon. He's agnostic about many, many things, including where the stock market will be in a few weeks or a few months. And at the same time, he doesn't try to predict when to buy, but the focuses more on what to buy.
It's happening, period. The technology is neither good nor bad. It's agnostic . You know, you can do many great things with your mobile phone. But you can also create a terrorist network.
also make the point and I think this is something that we um in the Bay Area maybe forget I certainly do is that entrepreneurship is is Tech agnostic and although Silicon Valley is certainly a shining star as far as entrepreneurship goes it's not the only successful place and so um you know
They're tool agnostic . They are foundational principles that you can apply in varying extent in any tool.
And she remained adamantly agnostic on the language of the tablets for just this reason.
But I'm platform agnostic .
And I wanted staunch agnostic or atheistic to be able to read this and go, "Wow what a fun ride." So that's a tough one and we'll see if it happens that way or not but it was a fun one
as that's what he was. He was agnostic . So he wouldn't scare people away with the atheism and can maybe slide in his message of evolution. My view of that after, you know, 150 years of using the weasel word agnostic ,
audience #2: I was more wondering about could you have Agnostic church? Like, if you wanna be Agnostic but you wanted to belong, how would you set up an Agnostic church? Michael Krasny: There are Agnostic places of worship; there are Unitarian churches. You know the joke about the--I write a lot about the Ten Commandments—the joke about the Unitarians is that they call them the Ten Suggestions.
Atheists and agnostics see Superman as a secular messiah.
The answer, "no, you can't know there is a God." Or "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer. That is agnosticism; it answers the epistemological question. But if you're asked, "do you believe in God?" That's an entirely different question.
Whatever it is-- and I'm agnostic as to what it is, I just want it to be what your internal voice is
And we've always taken a solution-agnostic approach.
And I'm a little bit agnostic about it.
And if you can be more agnostic to that, it's helpful to the long-term returns.
We are kind of industry agnostic .
Or you're kind of agnostic ?
But I think we're pretty agnostic about emerging technology.
and religious about being atheist or agnostic than I am about being a religious person.
How many people are really agnostic ?
I think-- I'm quite agnostic as to how far away we are from AI.
And just as you can be an agnostic , a skeptic, an atheist in relation to religion, so all those tags can apply also for the news.
We're kind of platform agnostic because God knows the platform changes every 10 minutes.
Didn't want to use the word atheist. So Huxley took the word agnostic , meaning "don't know," and kind of threw it out there as that's what he was.
them on an individual level. They're different to you than they may be to me, but nevertheless they're worth exploring in a universal way. And so, I thought, the real word that begins to apply to what I am is "Agnostic ". And I once interviewed Studs Terkel, who said he was an Agnostic , he was a great oral historian and I said, "What do you mean you're an Agnostic ?" And he said, "Well, I'm a cowardly Atheist." Maybe Agnosticism is a form of cowardly Atheism. In fact, maybe Agnosticism has become a source,
himself an Atheist depending on what his audience was. There was a man named Robert Ingersol who was known as the great Agnostic , who was a stunning orator and an attorney by profession. And there was also another Agnostic by the name of T.H. Huxley, who gave us the word "Agnostic ." He was known also as Darwin's Bulldog and he was the grandfather of Aldous Huxley, a name probably familiar to more of you. But T. H. Huxley began to define Agnostic in terms of not having Gnosticism, not having secret knowledge, not simply knowing. And
named named America Yong who was an agnostic you go into persian literature
know other people who are Muslims Jews agnostics atheists so it's about branching out from your just singular
Like I had one sister who didn't speak to me for five years, because she was saying they'll think it's us. But I live in a world of agnosticism, but I behave like a believer.
- What I also love about that lesson is how agnostic science is.
And that's what I mean by science is agnostic , right?
And that's a key point is this is a platform agnostic system-- probably its greatest strength.
The first part is you mentioned that this is technology agnostic , but I think a lot of times without technology, there's a lot of friction in terms of writing down a note,
And as somebody who is generally fairly politically agnostic in my personal views, which is actually kind of a relief,
Well, I'm agnostic with a yearning for something greater, sure.
Again, we're very agnostic .