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How small is small? How large is large? How real is real?
Science can only measure as much as it has gadgets
To extend its feeble reach and limited vision.
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For the want of any proof,
Any verification, any evidence,
Any rational, scientific corroboration,
Hope, faith, belief, mythology, superstition,
And every other form of conviction,
Are sustained across the board.
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For those earnestly subscribing to the scientific model,
Every thing, every moment, is an on-going experiment.
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Any given scientist in any given field
Can only offer as objective an observation
As the relativity of subjectivity allows.
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True science requires any given scientist, any given researcher,
To approach the question, the problem, the puzzle, the hypothesis, the experiment,
With as much objective, impartial integrity as can be mustered.
Damn the funding, full inquiry ahead.
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Why would anyone look to the geocentric,
Ethnocentric, mythological, superstitious rationalizations
Of mindsets forged thousands of years ago in fear, in ignorance, in delusion,
Over the verifiable observations of the true scientist.
You, scientist.
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All the scientists, researchers and scholars
Out there measuring, categorizing, graphing everything they possibly can,
With whatever technologies they can muster.
To what end?
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The superstitious mind finds the pattern for which it is in dread looking.
The scientific one, the answer that stands apparent after discerning inquiry.
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Science is a state, a quality of mind
That examines the truth of anything and everything.
No belief system is required other than a deep, abiding, verifiable acuity.
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The sciences, however astute,
Must ever only flail at the windmills
Of the unknown that permeates all creation.
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As meticulously as the sciences
May examine and measure all things manifest,
The rational mind must ever remain ignorant of its irrational origin.
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True science is not a religion.
It is a quality of mind solely intent on rational,
Dispassionate, impersonal, accurate, lucid, measurable observation,
To whatever conclusion the quest for truth may bring.
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Science will always be restricted
By the capacities of the devices doing the measuring,
And the dexterity and intentions of the minds orchestrating the experiments.
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Science must focus on small questions because the big ones have no answer,
And philosophers on the grand scheme, so that they can fall short, as well.
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Science fiction can journey well beyond any pale,
But the limits of imagination are ever bound
By the physics of real-time invention,
And the moths lodged in the given wallet.
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Science is only as true as the mind in which it convenes.
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The nature of the scientific mind is to always be examining everything for oneself,
To accept no assertion that cannot be verified by one’s own observation.
Why should sovereignty of the given mind ever be relinquished
To any haphazard tradition, superstition, or dogma?
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The scribe knows what is being written, but what are you reading?
The speaker knows what is being spoken, but what are you hearing?
Everything you see, touch, hear, feel, smell is but an arbitrary translation
Of the subjective nature-nurture mind-body in which the awareness dwells,
The witness before which creation is filtered through the caprice of imagination.
The observer is the never the observed, the observed is never the observer.
True objectivity is an impossible ideal, an unreachable brass ring,
Which even science can never more than pretend to attain.
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In all its countless imaginary measurements,
The creation of knowledge is inevitably born of limitation,
Yet beyond the mind-made limits, the mystic observer, a true scientist,
Remains as equally attentive to the immeasurable now as s/he would any experiment.
The observer is the observed; the observed, the observer.
There is naught but one.
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True science is about the never-ending quest
For the most certainty possible about any given focus,
Which is, of course, all too often handicapped, even paralyzed,
By politics, funding, technology, expertise, competition,
And any number of other itsy-bitsy limitations.
By which all manifestation is ever bound.
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The sciences can only peer into the hypothetical-theoretical so long
Before it all becomes, for-all-practical-purposes, an unknowable void,
Which is the word-filled domain of philosophers, mystics, and fools.
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It is a regrettably curious thing the destructive grip that ignorance has upon the world.
Modern sciences obviously tender more accurate, verifiable observations and measurements
Than the ancients across the planet ever could in their geocentric, ethnocentric domains.
And yet they from their graves rule current times as absurdly as they did their own.
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A question for the sciences: How small is small? How big is big?
What exactly is ever being measured but the limitations of imagination?
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Only the true scientist will not sell his soul for ironic funding.
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A true scientist pursues the truth, no matter the cost.
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There are the many whose existence is lived out of obligation to the arbitrary memes born of time,
And the sporadic few whose spirits are drawn to the exploration of its mystery.
Not all can be scientists, else there would be no laboratory
In which wisdom might brew.
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The ancients called the elements
Earth, air, water, fire, ether.
Scientists in these times
Call it quantum mechanics.
Intuit it, name it, label it, describe it,
Measure it, organize it, in whatever way you will,
It is, has ever been, will ever be, must ever be, the same mystery.
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Self-discovery is a moment-to-moment process,
As true a scientific inquiry as there could possibly be.
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What any true scientist
Must first and foremost be
Is a seeker of that which is true,
Whatever it is, wherever it may lead.
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For memes to let loose their rigid grip
Would require a revolutionary paradigm shift
Seemingly well beyond the monkey-mind’s capacity.
In the eternal struggle between intelligence and ignorance,
It is not rocket science to predict which mindset will likely win out.
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What hath science, industry, technology and commerce
Wrought upon this spinning garden world
And all its innocent residents
This fine day?
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Going further than a couple zeros on either side of the decimal point
Is the abstract realm of theoreticians of one focus or another.
Scientific abstractions, as accurate as they may well be,
Travel through conjectures all but meaningless to daily existence,
Wherein consciousness must sound the depths of its own imaginary invention.
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Every life form on this planet
Learns to care for itself, or dies.
Much simpler than rocket science.
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The Jesus-walking-on-water allusion is obviously figurative from a quantum perspective.
And he probably brought the wine and bread, and Lazarus was more than likely not really dead.
Accepting anything literally that you have not for your Self scientifically observed and/or experienced,
Is generally a dubious misstep into the ceaselessly precarious absurdities of any and all delusion.
Hold fast to the rational, the sensible, the balanced, the coherent, the logical, the realistic.
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Any earnest scientist inevitably discerns that the observer is the observed.
Measurement only goes so far before it breaches the boundaries of imagination,
The pale beyond which the eternal immeasurability is forever unknowable.
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How can infinity be measured?
Science is bound by its limitations.
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Scientific Method … noun … a method of procedure
That has characterized natural science since the 17th century,
Consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment,
And the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
1) Define the question
2) Gather information and resources (observe)
3) Form hypothesis
4) Perform experiment and collect data
5) Analyze data
6) Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis
7) Publish results
8) Retest (frequently done by other scientists)
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Alas for the sciences that they shall never discern
The very first moment consciousness
Separated from Eden.
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True science is the most enlightening way
Of examining this vast mystery,
Call it what you will.
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True science is the most enlightening way
Of examining this vast mystery,
Call it what you will.
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The true scientist, the true historian, the true anything,
Never gives up questing as accurate a rendering
As their swirl of consciousness can muster.
468
What are you but
A historical collage,
An economic statistic,
An anthropological result,
A psychological adaptation,
A sociological paradigm,
A scientific curiosity.
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How big is big? How small is small?
Scientists, mathematicians, and other bean counters,
Always adding zeroes to every end,
To what end?
* * * *
Science that does not flow with nature is not science.
Science that manipulates nature to unnatural ends is not science.
Science that generates mayhem and destruction upon the garden is not science.
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All religion, science, and technology are proving to be ultimately nonsensical.
What is the point, the raison d'être of all this knowledge, really,
If it only ends up in mayhem and annihilation?
* * * *
There are far too many variables unleashed
To be scientifically sure of anything, really.
A statistical sample is about as good as it gets.
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At some point on some day after some tomorrow,
Consciousness as humankind has portrayed it will simply disappear.
And on and on the abiding earth will whirl, until the cosmic dominos fall, however they will.
And more likely than not, despite all science fiction to the contrary,
No alien species will ever come across all the residue
Of our relatively transitory tenure.
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Why should you examine and corroborate anything and everything to your satisfaction?
Because you are a scientist, and resolute, exacting observation is first and foremost.