Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
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... And I cannot even fathom the extent to which our understanding of the world is lacking. How many things are we unaware of simply because we were never meant to be aware of them in the first place?
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My Ecology professor showed our class this video one day and I was moved to tears. And, let me tell you, the only other tears I was ever shedding in that class were those of indignant consternation (I feel asleep in that class a lot and blamed the universe for sabotaging my academic endeavors). I find this video extremely comforting; it reminds me of a quote I once heard about how the success of the human race would mean the demise of the rest of the natural world... and how the demise of the human race would allow the natural world to flourish as it did centuries ago.
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