THE ENDLESS QUEST
(Thoughts on hearing Marcelo Gleiser, author of “Life in an Imperfect Universe”)
Let us cease our fruitless search
For a unified theory of the universe.
The force that drives the stars away
Drives our brief forms of energy
To question, search, adapt, evolve:
The mystery is not meant to be resolved.
Perfection is a false and fatal lure:
The wily fox outlived the dinosaur.
The journey is not meant to have an end.
There’s no one answer out there to be found.
Natural selection steadily proceeds.
Only that goes onward which succeeds.
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