He was full of questions. <br />For others, he provided answers <br />that stunned their knowledge and their world; <br />for him, his answers were but springboards <br />for his further questions. <br /> <br />He was the humblest of agnostics, <br />the humblest too, of atheists: <br />in the absence of sure faith in answers, <br />he lived with faith in questions; <br /> <br />and lived in wonder – full of wonder at the laws <br />that unfolded to his curiosity; <br />an eternity of questions; <br />an eternity of wonder at the world; <br /> <br />and perhaps, the God he did not believe in, <br />smiled, and loved him as a true believer; <br />sharing the goodness, truth and beauty of the universe <br />as angels may; believing in the love of law, <br />as the God of questions and creation must.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-great-scientist/
