weltanschauung \`veltân'shaûng\ [n] Gr.: world view | a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe | the general idea embodied in a cosmology
nihilismus [n] Gr. En nihilism \n'Iul`izum\: Nothingness | nihility | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless | a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially moral values
"Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume our views of science are ultimate, that there no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer,"
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