The only thing I would add to this quote is to put a ‘yet’ at the end of it. I believe all is fathomable, just not yet, and maybe not even by us humans. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an explanation.
In the meanwhile it is perfectly fine, and not against any belief in science and it’s ability to discover truth, to say we don’t understand something, that we sit in awe of the complexity of life, earth, the universe, emotions, feelings, death and much more.
I am happy knowing I am living in an era when searching for explanations, wherever they may lead, will not get me burnt at the stake or hung from a gallows for heresy. I am very glad for that.
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
“A thinking person’s greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to rever in slience what cannot be fathomed.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, German author, poet and scientist