Exploring Happiness #11- Quest Poem by June Stepansky

Belief is not truth.
Everyone believed
that the earth was flat
until Columbus
discovered
the new world.
Millions believed
in Zeus and Hera
until a new belief
replaced the old.

The search for truth
can itself be
a kind of faith,
powerful and
liberating.



Through the ages, there have always been a few individuals who have looked for the truth. Because of their vision, our lives have been enriched. Galileo, who discovered that the earth moved around the sun, was arrested for his discovery. Louis Pasteur and Sigmund Freud fought not only the powers in control but their own colleagues as well, until they were finally able to prove their theories.
We are fortunate that there have always been a few courageous truth-seekers to expand our knowledge, and hopefully there will be others in the future who will continue to try to unlock the still unknown secrets and mysteries of our universe.


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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Bertrand Russell.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you don’t catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow