A light in the dark: Finding the good in the natural world
KC Cole
When the world seems dark and scary, when compassion and tolerance seem in short supply, when hostility and hate make our future foreboding, hope comes from the place we might least expect it: science.
As the Roman philosopher Lucretius observed during similarly fraught times, back in 55 BC: “This dread and darkness of the mind cannot be dispelled by sunbeams, the shining shafts of day, but only by an understanding of the outward form and inner workings of nature.”
To be sure, applying “hard”...