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"I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?"
— James Lee Byars, founder, The World Question Center
"Fantastically stimulating...Its like the crack cocaine of the thinking world.... Once you start, you cant stop thinking about that question."
— BBC Radio 4

The
Edge
Annual Question — 2006
WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?

[Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting the
Edge
Annual Question — 2006.]
January 1, 2006
To the
Edge
Community,
Last years 2005
Edge
Question — "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" — generated many eye-opening responses from a "whos who" of third culture scientists and science-minded thinkers. The 120 contributions comprised a document of 60,000 words.
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