![]() Even if the secret is sontained in these things, in other words, I do not think it will yield to the kind of analysis our science is capable of making. It is only that somewhere among the seeds and beetle shells and abandoned grasshopper legs I find something that is not accounted for very clearly in the dissections to the ultimate virus or crystal or protein particle. I would not be understood to speak ill of scientific effort, for in simple truth I would not be alive today except for the microscopes and the blue steel. There is, I know, a kind of heresy, a shocking negation of confidence in blue-steel microtomes and men in white in making such a statement. In fact I have ceased to believe in the final brew or the ultimate chemical. I have come to suspect that this long descent down the ladder of life, beautiful and instructive though it may be, will not lead us to the final secret. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books….a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child knows that someone must have written these books. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. Quoted by Michael Reagan in The Hand of God, p. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. The important thing is not to stop questioning. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is. The sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as feeble reflection, this is religiousness. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavor in art and in science … He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. But mystery remains, more profound and more beautiful than ever before, a reality almost inaccessible to our feeble human means. The advances of biology have revolutionized the view we have of ourselves and our significance in the world. “Engineering a Molecular Nightmare.” Nature 327 (May 21, 1987), p. If has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist. It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist the same blind force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. Quoted in The Magnificent Desolation, IMAX.Īnyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. ![]() Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. ![]()
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