Invention vs. Knowledge

Growing up as a child aren't we constantly asking questions about the way the world works? Why is the sky blue? How big is Montana? This is what makes childhood such a wonderful: the unrelenting thirst for knowledge. We ask questions and question everything that is ever put before us. But is there  a point in our development that we just stop asking questions about the world and just accept what is presented whether or not it is factual? Our society is totally fixated on verifiable fact to the point that when something comes along and cannot be measured, catalogued, and put on a shelf or in book is not real, it is trick of the eye, an illusion.

Theories are only theories, they are not fact. There very few scientific laws and the rest are incredibly researched, experimented, and retested observations. The smallest of details can completely change a scientific theory so that raises the question of whether or not we should question science? Yes, yes of course I would hope so for the sake of the future. Nothing is set in stone. Progress is not created if we constantly question our foundations of science but there are certain points that would be a waste of time to question. Any child who was fallen off of a bicycle knows pains of gravity. But what can happen when we solely absorb and agree with all that is presented to us?

George Orwell knew what would happen and he wrote '1984' to show what a terrible place would be without thought, but we like the illusion. We like comfort and we demand it, if anything ever steps of our circle of comfort all hell breaks loose. This world cannot base itself off of scientific theories alone our personal perceptions of the world do play a role. An acknowledgment of both worlds is key. There is no truth. Time doesn't even exist. It is simply a concept that we invented to understand the world around us. Personal truth should be just as equally valued as scientific understanding. As infinite as the Universe is said to be what we do does not matter in relation to the rest of everything else. If searching for a greater truth completes a person then so be it, live life for the pursuit of knowledge. If spending time with the kids makes the most sense and neglecting what the rest of the world holds to be true then live long and prosper.