science

Science is like a river. The river is constantly heading forwards into the unknown, but runs the risk of being blocked by stones and branches that clog it up, and slow it’s development progress. The stones and branches are like the things that slow scientific progress, such as moral disagreements, greed, pettiness, and impatience. Although inconvenient, these things are a definite part of the human condition, and thus, they continue to exist. Over a while, the debris gathers, creating a constantly growing dam in the river that threatens to stop any progress from being made. It seems that maybe, scientific advancement is so halted by this, that nothing more can be accomplished with the great dam only growing. Yet sometimes, the dam breaks loose, and one or two inconveniences are for a moment disregarded. It creates a whole in the dam that allows a bit of progress to seep out into the future, and for better or worse forge through the unknown, into the yonder of moral grayness and uncertainty.