Deep Thoughts

Four

Two and two make four, a child learns that in his earliest experiences with figures, it is a simple calculation that can be proven in many ways, it is plain and obivious, there can be no doubt or confusion until it is found necessary to substantiate, manifest, computation by intricate problems in algerbra and trigonmetry and calculus, by studies in squares and motions and curves--- and suddently it becomes evident that two and two may not make four after all. As man pursues knowledge he continually discovers that what had seemed simple to him in the beginning becomes more and more complex as he advances.

Posted on Nov 23, 2004 by Past member

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