What I Love about Science (in short)

“Science is the poetry of reality.”
-Richard Dawkins

It took me a while to find science; for almost 3 decades of my life I feel like I lived with a filmy veil shrouding my eyes. But once science took hold, the curiosity it injected into every neuron of my brain took hold with abandon. Why do I love science? Because I can walk through the world with a knowledge of the mechanics of my stride and breath, understand where I am (in relativistic terms), and how I got there. It affords me the critical ability to navigate through this neo-techno jungle we now inhabit, filled with irrational sound bites, where I can contemplate the reality of our exciting yet challenged future. But it also allows me to simply stand there and look up in awe, stunned by the beauty and the mystery of existence. Science offers me power to ask why, and why not.

(from my Scirens ‘screen sirens for science’ bio page |www.scirens.com)