The Uncertainty of

"a found poem"

It is true all of the things we say,

all the conclusions

are uncertain. Guesses

to what is

to what happens and

we cannot know

because

you cannot know

what will happen

because

you have not made the complete

and necessary experiments.

Ken e Bujold

© 2022

Author's Note

this is another found poem, taken from Richard Feynman's The Meaning of it All, thoughts of a citizen-scientist, which is the transcription of a series of talks he gave in April of '63 at the U of Washington (Seattle). This poem comes from one paragraph, 2 sentences 5 lines that can be found on pg 26, in the talk titled "The Uncertainty of Science".

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

This little found poem makes me reflect on life in general. Everything is uncertain for sure. We can never know exactly what the outcome of something will be until it is done. Life is full of uncertainty. Good morning Ken from the UK. Isn't it nice to find poens written some while back abd to look at them with fresh eyes?

Chris

[W. Barrett Munn]

It always amazes me how closely science and philosophy meld at essence. Still, conclusions made from testing (including I don’t know) are superior to belief by faith that the answer must be “it’s magic.”

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

i sometimes think science is religion on steroids