Embrace uncertainty
Living in timeplace where you are
Degree of the certainty
Isn’t that far
Now you perceive world around you
Out of Plato’s cave
Don’t let these bound you
Stop being slave
But neither become master
However you may object
This isn’t a huge disaster
People have right to reject
Integrable systems suggest
Health is about digest
Electrical engineering
Resistance to change protest
What is this circuit that makes
Life of the people so bound
Sense and point awakes
Each day is another round
Each person has own feelings
They can’t feel the emptiness
These are orange peelings
Orange gifts us happiness
I.
The great Albert Einstein
Would appreciate a fine wine,
And after sipping a little
He would play upon his fiddle
II.
The legendary chemist Linus Pauling
Found the hydrogen and atom bombs appalling,
And after winning one for chemistry he would not cease
Until he won another Nobel Prize for peace.
III.
Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie
Was just as famous as could be—
Amidst the fin-de-siècle pandemonium
She discovered radium and polonium.
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