Wednesday, March 03, 2004
who isnt actually me by the way..im just SUPPOSED to be this guy you see here which is pretty cool actually
*off to dig up an old sec school project abt him* never did expect mr yap's little assignment to turn out to be so inspiring..but yeah..all the relativity stuff is actually pretty intruiging, if somewhat...very..EXTREMELY..inconprehensible
"THe most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science...whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead"
Excerpt from this essay he wrote..The World As I See It..ok i'll link it somewhere..i think its so inspiringly readable. and this was the bit that stuck extra long.
It's amazing how people FAIL to be amazed by how amazing life is..sometimes i just stop and wonder how i can go through everyday walking breathing eating and everything else and how come things don't just STOP. It's strange how seldom people think about the intrinsic miraculous-ness in just being alive. We're like, on earth for this incredibly short period...and even that we take for granted. And despite everything that's happened in all the fields of science..despite KNOWING so much more about how things happen...it only highlights how little we know with regards to WHY.
We've picked apart the human genome, walked on the moon and a zillion others, but that hasn't changed the fact that what we DO know is still barely a scratch on the surface of what there is to know. At best, i still stand amazed at the sheer precocity of life. Because i am only here once, and once i leave, i will never return.
"We see everything through a glass, darkly"
jostein gaarder
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