Knower’s Arc

Breathing Space A series of talks on subjects that matter

Presented by Anthony Renshaw

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time, be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made is with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-reason to fust in us unused.
Hamlet, IV.iv

The wonder of knowledge is that when it is ordinary, it informs; when it is new, it reforms; when it is true, it transforms; and when it is wrong, it deforms. If you map your life on a graph, with one axis for the passage of time and the other axis for the growth of knowledge, it describes and arc. The curve of the arc might dip in places and soar in others, but over a life-time, under the curve of this arc, we build and furnish our lives.