The relationship between knowledge and happiness can be described as inversely proportional. As one gains knowledge, their simplistic satisfaction with life decreases. ... The lack of knowledge remains as the primary cause of many catastrophes in history. ... "Wise" invention and critical discoveries such as made by Galileo and Isaac Newton have the potential to endanger our lives by giving birth to curiosity. ... "For in much wisdom is much grief and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow." ...

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Locke reasoned that knowledge cannot be absolute because it relies on the senses and observations. ... Their disagreement leaves one wondering what the true source of knowledge really is. I propose that Locke's argument that knowledge is founded on our senses and experiences best accounts for acquiring knowledge. ... If we reflect on the past, we see the history of theories and information being replaced by knowledge proven to be more correct through experimentation and discovery. ... Thus, the origin of knowledge is most accurately depicted by Empiricism. ...

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What if everything in the world which is thought to be factual knowledge turns out to be false? Discoveries like these are unsettling, and they can provoke questions about the possibility of knowledge itself. ... The point of the doubt is like an instrument for finding out a certain foundation of human knowledge. ... The dreaming argument threatens all knowledge based on experience, but it does not threaten knowledge of truths known only from experience. ...

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One profound idea that developed abruptly at this time period was the Scientific method, which impacted religious authority using scientific and philosophical knowledge to apply an explanation the world around it. ... As time passed, more scientific achievements were accomplished, such as the theory of gravity and other astronomical discoveries, which further conflicted with authority, but an immense development was that of the scientific method. ...

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As we gaze over time the developments and discoveries of great people can be seen and remembered. ... Moreover do not sit in class knowing and answer and avoiding responding in an attempt to resist being branded with a label, because of your knowledge of that answer. ...

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