“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
A botanist and a poet wander through the same summer meadow. The botanist notes the serrated edge of a leaf, the reproductive strategy of a yellow bloom. The poet notices the way the stem sways in the wind, the fade of pale yellow at the petal’s edge.
Which is the truer observation?
Observation is never neutral. We don’t simply ‘see...
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