the drop

If "Everything I know is but a drop in the ocean of knowledge"

Then everything everyone has ever known is a sea.

In the sea of knowledge, there is a fringe, a precipice. Most people can spend their whole lives diving deeper in to different areas of knowledge already discovered, but few dare to push the fringe.

Imagine that the sea of knowledge expands in to the ocean and just keeps going on forever.

Imagine what it must have been like for Columbus when he stared in to the unknown and charged forward.

Imagine what it must of been like for Hubble when he discovered for the first time that there were other galaxies out there, that we weren't the only one.


These are people that pushed the fringe of knowledge. They opened our minds to new concepts. Concepts like the earth is round, or the universe is expanding.

Pushing the fringe at this stage is a remarkable feat since it's been pushed so far. But when you imagine the amount of knowledge that our human civilization hasn't discovered yet and compare it to what we do know, it's actually a very small sea.

When you see the world in this way, it creates quite a different perspective on everything.