Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
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