The One Reality Science Cannot

[it's] Troubling Because It Reminds Us How Difficult It Is To Prove Anything. We Like To Pretend That Our Experiments Define The Truth For Us. But That's Often Not The Case. Just Because An Idea Is True Doesn't Mean It Can Be Proved. And Just Because An Idea Can Be Proved Doesn't Mean It's True. When The Experiments Are Done, We Still Have To Choose What To Believe.

When We Venture Beyond The Edge Of Our Knowledge, All We Have Is Art.

The Vocational Approach At Nocca (new Orleans Center For The Creative Arts) Helps Build Grit In Students. It Teaches Them How To Be Single-minded In Pursuit Of A Goal, To Sacrifice For The Sake Of A Passion. The Teachers Demand Hard Work From Their Kids Because They Know, From Personal Experience, That Creative Success Requires Nothing Less.

It Is Ironic But True: The One Reality Science Cannot Reduce Is The Only Reality We Will Ever Know. This Is Why We Need Art. By Expressing Our Actual Experience, The Artist Reminds Us That Our Science Is Incomplete, That No Map Of Matter Will Ever Explain The Immateriality Of Our Consciousness.

In Fact, The Only Way To Remain Creative Over Time--to Not Be Undone By Our Expertise--is To Experiment With Ignorance, To Stare At Things We Don't Fully Understand.