Puzzles

We humans are puzzle solvers. We get a certain joy out of solving puzzles. Richard Feynman spoke about “the joy of finding things out.” We are not Nobel Prize-winning geniuses like Feynman but still we do like solving puzzles.

Given that we differ in our preferences, we choose different puzzles we attempt to solve. Charles Darwin wanted to know what was the mechanism that drove biological evolution; Adam Smith wondered about the nature and causes of the wealth of nations; Newton wanted to figure out (among lots of other things) what the nature of light was; Einstein wanted to know what it would be like if one moved at the speed of light, etc. Continue reading “Puzzles”