The Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers | E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup) | Scoop.it

Because much of Nature remains hidden from us, our view of the world is based only on the fraction of reality that we can measure and analyze. Science, as our narrative describing what we see and what we conjecture exists in the natural world, is thus necessarily limited, telling only part of the story.

 

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery. It is the flirting with this mystery, the urge to go beyond the boundaries of the known, that feeds our creative impulse, that makes us want to know more.

 


Via Kenneth Mikkelsen, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD