The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The cultural idea of a scientist is someone who sets up an experiment and then when it doesn’t happen the way they expected says, ‘Oh my experiment is a failure.’ No scientist actually thinks like that. Any experiment that yields data is a viable experiment. Information is key, not what you expected the outcome to be.
For science, embracing uncertainty means more than claiming “we don’t know now, but we will know in the future”. It means embracing the fuzzy boundaries of the very process of asking questions. It means embracing the frontiers of what explanations, for all their power, can do. It means understanding that a life of deepest inquiry requires all kinds of vehicles: from poetry to particle accelerators; from quiet reveries to abstract analysis.
These lives we live, surrounded by beauty and horror, profound knowledge and pitiful ignorance, are a mystery to us all. To push that truth away with false certainty, falsely derived from either religion or reason, is to miss our most perfect truth.
We are, after all, just “such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
Mr. Puff gets his head stuck. [video]
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What even is that? Who even is this? And more importantly I don’t even care who my followers are yet alone what else they do with their lives…
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…Lizzy…
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Don’t you dare Lizzy!
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