“I’m not afraid of the unknown. I embrace what I don’t know, readily admit that I don’t know, and pursue first-hand experiences that might help me fill those gaps (especially when the knowledge pertains to our ecological reality, rather than some human-centric trivia). This is the lifelong learning process. This is research, in its pure form. What I am against are people who can’t just admit when there’s something they don’t know, so they lay the causation on ferries, ghosts, aliens, god, and what have you. Those are the people who truly fear the unknown. They have to fill their gaps with fantastic placeholders. And in the end, they convince themselves that they have no gaps, and therefore nothing in need of filling, and they stop learning.”

— Ryan HeavyHead