Relentless chemistry explorers like Wani and Wall believed in something so strongly that they discovered the famous cancer fighting compound Taxol by "just not giving up". Geniuses
of algebra devised the surrogate “x” to placehold a temporary
safe house where the unknown can rest, waiting for other clues to
work. Sometimes the deduction process bears results, but sometimes it
fails when facts are insufficient. When failure happens, it's
generally not the fault of the process, though, it's a paucity of
information.
Knowing
what is and what isn't comprises in itself a powerful vat of
information. Chemists, with their atomic insight, and mathematicians with their theorems and their equations,
their transforms, and their matrices have a way of finding and proving solutions
despite what answers “may exist in their hearts”. Proof is dear.
But,
belief has its sole existence in the mind. It's not that
belief is a lesser species, but belief is one of the “opinion
kinfolk”...not yet fact, although sometimes more interesting. And,
belief is one colorful (and mystical) offspring in the genus whose
Latin name means “not knowing”. So, let's be honest about what we
don't know. And, let's see if we can agree that it's impossible to
know the breadth and depth of what we don't know...until some
pertinent facts come in.
It's an
honorable calling to be a fact explorer. It's a master of feints and
measures who hunts for coincidences through seas of sand and gravel.
Now and then, when a fact fits jigsaw perfectly into the
mathematician's equation, harmony rings up an elegant solution, and
having struggled through the heavy seas of differentials and
integrals, the sun shines. Then, knowing bears it's own pot of
gold.
There's
a cold, shaking fever connected with not knowing. Believing warms
hearts, though. It's an intriguing comfort.
3 comments:
No one comments on this kind of stuff. The point is too deeply buried. Probably down the Kola (deepest man made hole).
Write one about "suspecting"...when knowing is out of reach. Believing seems to just be related to primitive superstition. There are mysteries begging to be unraveled.
I know something that you must be completely unaware of.
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