A Paradox

Any paradox embodies two logically opposite ideas that, nonetheless, make rational sense. Thus, a logical contradiction that nevertheless reminds us of a hidden truth, or an uncommonly recognized verity.

• What is worth knowing is yet unknown.
• The word that can be spoken is not the word.
• When upon hearing a sound, the moment has passed from which the utterance emerged.
• There is no simultaneity, despite the appearance of such a coincidence.
• We are but the latest bud and potentially the next extension, not of the limbs on the tree of life, but of the most current branch of the tangled bank.

Scientific thought is characterized by a paradox. It also employs three necessary habits of mind that are applied to theory, experimentation and discoveries; these are thorough thinking, analogous thought and reflection on refutable concepts.

A mobius strip in the photograph above of a Baltimore Museum sculpture paradoxically appears to be a two-sided figure but in reality turns out to be a one sided creation.

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