As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious. - GRE Issue 91

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious. - GRE Issue 91

Does knowledge render things more comprehensible, or more complex and mysterious? In my view the acquisition of knowledge brings about all three at the same time. This paradoxical result is aptly explained and illustrated by a number of advances in our scientific knowledge.

Consider, for example, the sonar system on which blind bats rely to navigate and especially to seek prey. Researchers have learned that this system is startlingly sophisticated. By emitting audible sounds, then processing the returning echoes, a bat can determine in a nanosecond not only how far away its moving prey is ...

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