Monday, October 29, 2007

'The more you know the less you understand.' (Tao Le Ching)

I think that this statement is completely true as you may know alot but not understand why something in particular happens.
Say, for example, you know that all matter in the universe is made up of microscopic particles, I bet you're saying "well, okay everyone knows that, so what?" But the thing is do you know what the particals are made up out of? And of course, the answer is "protons, nutrons and electrons" but the question is what are the protons, nutrons and electrons made up of? And so on and so forth. But the question is why? Why is all matter made up out of atoms, why do particles have postive and negative charges? The human quest for knowledge and wondering is forever endless.
So take a second and actually THINK about it. You know the sky is blue and heck you might even know why, and if you do good for you, but do you understand why it is blue? Why isn't it green? You may know someone does something but do you know why? Do you understand why?
Think about it.

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