I feel stupid.... and that's a good thing.

Well it has been a crazy couple of weeks for me. I have a lot of uncertainty ahead of me, but luckily I'll be too busy attempting to finish my thesis by the end of this Summer to really notice.

Oh, and I feel stupid too.

I feel like I could sit and read for a month straight and still not know as much as I should. I've grown especially angry at my TV lately... lousy machine is always sitting there calling out to me. And it feels so good to numb the mind for a bit that it's hard to resist. Of course, it doesn't help that all of our furniture is pointed at it.

Maybe the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on to something when they told us to "throw away your television".



Anyways, I was just reading an article called The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research and wanted to get down some thoughts. The article basically says that even the smartest people in the world don't have all of the answers. This means that when scientists start asking questions that nobody has the answer to, they are the ones who end up having to go and figure it out.

That's been the thing about grad school that I have really started to enjoy. I love the fact that I'm working with a data set that nobody has seen before. It's awesome to try and answer questions that nobody else is even asking.

It's funny because I know lots of people who think that science is out to disprove the existence of a deity, but when I look at nature I can see the infinite character of God is displayed in every scientific field. We keep learning, and then we keep finding more to learn.

So yeah, we're all stupid... but that's a good thing.