Mollie's Bubbles

One of the ironies of modern science is that some of its most profound discoveries — like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, or the emergent nature of consciousness — are actually about the limits of science. As Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist and lepidopterist, once put it, “The greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery.”

We now know enough to know that we will never know everything. This is why we need art: it teaches us [how to] live with mystery.