"Romanticized Science" Inspired by 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You:

Romanticized Science

There are the things that we know,

there are the things that we think we know,

and there are the things we claim to know

because we want them to be true.

How much of science

is true, unadulterated fact?

And how much of science

is simply a pattern of self-fulling prophecy,

showing us everything we want to see?

The stories that we tell ourselves

are of good things to come rewarding the good.

The stories that we tell ourselves

say that happily ever after is fact.

The truth is that humans

are looking for hope and happiness.

And if we happen to see that

in the things we can’t control,

then the fact of happiness in our lives becomes

not if

but when.