Scientific Humility and the Preservation of Curiosity: Against Epistemic Finality in Cosmology, Theology, and Phenomenology

This paper argues that humanity’s claim to final knowledge is philosophically and scientifically premature. Drawing on paradigm shifts in astronomy, contemporary cosmology’s “5% visible universe” framework, and phenomenology, the paper defends epistemic humility as a structural necessity of both science and consciousness. Engaging thinkers such as Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, it proposes a “zero and infinity” framework in which reality is understood not as a final answer to possess, but as an open question that educates consciousness.