working from home

I need a quick break. I've been writing. I've been coating my words with iron, wrapping them up so that they're bulletproof, making the reason impenetrable. The words are ugly.

Within the next month or so, I will hopefully be very close to submitting my first research publication. I may be in the specific field of polymer chemistry, but it's all the same. Finding gaps in our body of knowledge, and filling them because we're curious about the world.

I see people channeling this curiousity into attempts at making the world a better place. They seek out gaps that they percieve as being of benefit if filled, but whatever drives this philanthropy is not the scientific method itself.

Why is this pedestal here. Isolate the mode of thought associated with the scientific method and you're left with a distilled application of reason, dictated by the observations we make of what we call our physical world, never capable of taming these observations with any real certainty. Nothing more.

But we get so taken by our ability to apply hypotheses and seek out new observations to support these hypotheses of ours. We see things that support them and it's exciting, we feel clever. We become attached to them, they're worth arguing over, they're ours, and the generation of new observations is not impartial but is subject to where we probe and what we look for, and we get so consumed by it all that we make this whole game our God and lose sight of the fact that really, it is all inherently flawed.

Show your limitations, and I'll respect you. Give us hints at where truth and beauty might lie, but don't pretend to take us there.

Quick break over.