"Science itself is irrational- founded on things we cannot possibly prove" stated my Vice President for Academic Affairs this evening. With this statement, I felt a rush of relief. It's exactly the sentiment that I've felt all along, that the Scientific Method is a type of magic, a priori and ethereal in nature.
We, as a western culture, are so fixated on the methods of empiricism that we fail to see anything that cannot be explained, and in the explanation of all we experience- rip the joy of simply being away. Our derision for things outside of the scientific method are founded either in empiricism or in a disdain for the collectivist culture of the eternal present- satirized by terry pratchett in the theif of time by the way of eternal surprise.
It's time that we find that the past does not equal the future, and for every solution, we must approach each problem with an idea of the uniqueness of the difficulty which must be overcome. We must embrace creativity, or even the unknown as we seek to end the problems that face our generation.
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