How wonderful it is that life is full of things to learn. When we compare what we know to what we don’t know the difference is colossal. Yet, it gives a wonderful outlook to our education away from fear and resignation. You can keep on learning and researching and never run out of new things to learn. Each step would broaden your horizon and you would never be the same as you started. Under this premise and anticipation, I’d love to share with you Isaac Asimov’s wise words on the matter:

“People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage. You’re finished with school. You’re no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school – reading books, having ideas, asking questions – that’s kid’s stuff. Now you’re an adult, you don’t do that sort of thing any more.

You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there’s no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don’t stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.

What’s exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.”

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Gazing up at the universe and avoiding the black holes of fear a person has for the unknown, humanity has recently made one big step. Now, for the first time we have a high resolution image of a black hole. We have this image because scientists chose not be fearful of the immense and seemingly impossible work it requires to see the giant but chose to be curious and adventurous. Resolve to understand it surpassed any other. There, their courage and hard work gave its fruits.

Below is a great video by Veritasium on the significance of this first ever image of a black hole:

Let’s keep on learning and looking beyond. There is still so much to learn…