How do people fall in love?
How do human beings form out of little gobs of nothing inside a womb?
How do musicians make music?
How do composers think up entirely new music?
How do writers think up the right words for the story?
How do people retain hope when things go badly?
How do people lose themselves so completely?
How did Nestle Tolehouse come up with the perfect cookie recipe?
How do you even decide when something is perfect?
How do migraines get cured?
How did human beings learn to think?
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Sometimes when I think about the amount of things I don’t know, I feel overwhelmed. But then I relax, when I realize that I’m in the majority, and that anyway, sometimes the answers don’t matter – just thinking up the questions can be enough.
I feel small and unimportant reading those questions. >_> I think I’ll go make myself feel better with http://www.livescience.com
“Just thinking the questions can be enough.” I completely agree with you there. I think, though, the more we learn the more questions we have, which is only appropriate.
Those are some seriously good questions. Wait till you have children and they ask you some of these.
interesting and well asked.