"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." (Albert Einstein, What I Believe)
             Science. I was sitting in the last row in biology class, pretending to take notes. I was trying to listen to the teacher, but what she was saying sounded like a bunch of gibberish. She was saying something about semipermeable membranes and cytolysis. I was frustrated, the work was too hard and I just didn't understand the material. It was then that I thought "are we ever going to need the knowledge of cells in the future?" Was there any point to learning about something that would help us? Then the teacher talked about Albert Einstein and Redfield, famous scientists and philosophers. The teacher talked about how they devoted most of their life, to something as boring and monotonous as science. I later found out why these people devoted their lives to science, they longed to know how the world became how it is, they longed to know how human beings came about, and they longed to know the "mysterious."
             "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." The mysterious becomes beautiful by one factor, curiosity. Curiosity makes the people speculate specific topics. Curiosity is the desire to learn or understand. If it was the first time you ever heard of a computer and the first time you ever saw a computer, you would want to find out the purpose of this console and how to function and operate it. This curiosity brings in a sense of fascination and beauty to this new technology because it is simply unfamiliar and "mysterious." When something is unknown or unfamiliar, people would want to understand and comprehend it.
             "The mysterious is the source of all true art and science." Mystery is something that cannot be explained or understood. There are some people that have devoted time and thought t...