Some places don't exist on a map - but I still visit them. Some visitors' books don't exist either - but I still write in them.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Day 10: Forget about good...
"...good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth."
Would-be blogger campeuno once announced to a friend that she was thinking of keeping a diary: "I don't intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God." "Don't you think God already knows the facts?" the friend asked. "Yes," said campeuno. "He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts."*
(* Original dialogues by physicists Leo Szilard and Hans Bethe as recorded by Hans Christian von Baeyer in 'Taming the Atom'.)