As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
This statement seems to be irrefutable at the first glance but questionable when thinking twice. As far as I am concerned, as we acquire more knowledge, old things and questions do become more comprehensible while new things and questions arise and face us with more complicity and mystery.
From the perspective of history, the acquisition of knowledge do make things understandable. Almost every question, no matter it relates to science, art or philosophy, would follow the rule of what we called "the law of negation of the negation," which means that new things come from the collapse of old theories. Therefore, as human beings become more knowledgeable, obsolete theories and "truths" could be replaced by new comprehension which could make things better understand and comprehensive.
Take the development of genetics for example. At the very beginning, people thought that things could be born spontaneously just like flies could have derived from rotten meats. Later on, with the effort of scientists of several generations, people started to believe that genes are the basic element of heredity and that genes lie on a chemical molecule called DNA, which is the chemical nature of chromosomes, and thus the essence of heredity. Finally with the deciphering of DNA structure, which is turned out to be a double-helix paired by basic groups, people opened the era of molecular biology and started to understand the essence of heredity. Nowadays, people could even manipulate heretical process using genetic engineering methods. Therefore, we can tell that as human beings obtain more knowledge, old things and questions become more comprehensible and clearer.
However, since we have stepped into an era of advanced science and technology, newly emerged cutting-edge questions make things even more complex and confusing. The contribution from all human beings, normal people as well as talented scientists have pushed science and technology forward to the edge of our knowledge, new discoveries could hardly be made without the integration of knowledge from various fields of study as well as the invention of more capable computers such as quantum computers. People's knowledge about the universe is limited by things we have already known. At a macro scale, we still cannot track the origin of the universe; at a micro scale, we are not sure about the behavior of basic fundamental particles. The achievement of science and technology makes things much more complex and sophisticated than they were in the last century, but it is these intricate questions that move the civilization of human beings forward to a new stage.
In my view, for each individual, as one obtains more knowledge, he/she sure will make progress in his/her own field of study, and the deeper a person goes into, the clearer picture of the certain field he/she is able to see. Nevertheless, for the whole human civilization, things could become highly complex since people have to integrate knowledge from different fields of study to solve some cutting-edge mysteries. Therefore, everything could become increasingly complex and confusing, as well as less comprehensible.
Either for an individual or the whole society, acquiring knowledge is like climbing a staircase made up of books to see a full picture of the sky. People may start with an obstacle in front of their eyes, but as they climb up, they would be able to have a larger view. However, if people continue to climb, they are likely to be masked by the cloud; and thus things would become complicated and confusing. But finally people could make their way to a higher stage and would be able to see the full picture of the question. Thus, as we acquire more knowledge, old things and questions could be comprehensible while new things and questions would become more complex and mysterious, but increasingly intriguing as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 250, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...apos;the law of negation of the negation,' which means that new things come from ...
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Line 5, column 447, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...omes, and thus the essence of heredity. Finally with the deciphering of DNA structure, ...
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Line 7, column 259, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... well as talented scientists have pushed science and technology forward to the ed...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, such as, as well as, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3284.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 628.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22929936306 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00598923014 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98304640674 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477707006369 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1025.1 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5371528421 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.833333333 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1666666667 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351766097723 0.243740707755 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111553870959 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136084561945 0.0758088955206 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217846334642 0.150359130593 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814391706846 0.0667264976115 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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