Why the Edge of the Unknown Is the Best Place to Play →
Whether you're an artist, or a scientist, or something else, the danger of loving the unknown is that you might fall in love with ignorance. That lands you in the realm of vague, starry-eyed spirituality and boring everyone to death with talk of the amazing energies that surround us. For a songwriter like Conor Oberst or a scientist like Lawrence Krauss, though, the delight is in peering into the unknown, reaching in, and pulling some strange, new thing out of the darkness.