wonder
Viktor Frankl was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 39. He had been married 1 year and he would never see his wife again. At one of the worst places to ever exist in the world, he said this happened:
“Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, “How beautiful the world could be!”
I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made by human beings is to want certainties when trying to understand something. The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.
- Carlo Rovelli.
All the reliable information we’ve acquired in the world - has been acquired through the testing process - not knowing and then knowing.
[Leonardo da Vinci’s] method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.