The
difficulty of explaining everything is not due to our mental weakness, but to the
very structure of the universe. In recent centuries we have discovered that the
fabric of the cosmos can be considered on several different levels. While the next level has not been discovered, what happens in the previous one cannot be explained,
it can just be described. Consequently, for the last known level we can never have explanations, we can only have descriptions.
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a little history:
- Eighteenth-century chemists discovered many new substances. Not knowing what they were, all they could do was describe them in catalogs of properties, but they had no explanation of those properties.
