The Shoreline of Wonder
“As the island of knowledge grows, so too grows the shoreline of wonder.”
“As the island of knowledge grows, so too grows the shoreline of wonder.”
That’s my edit on Ralph Sockman’s “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” In my version, I like the dynamism—the active growing, the becoming larger.
To the whole metaphor let me make the following addition: if the surface over which the island is growing has the shape of a sphere, then it becomes possible that eventually the island of knowledge will meet itself and all shorelines of wonder will disappear as knowledge becomes complete.
Is such a globally complete knowledge possible, after which wonder disappears? Is our conceptual scheme or epistemological paradigm shaped like a sphere? Or is it a flat circle, which can grow to infinity without ever growing into itself again, never becoming self-supporting?
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