I find articles like this to be uplifting and encouraging.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?full=true
Sir Arthur Eddington once said, “We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'”.
-- Lache
