I was talking to a friend today who had some recent troubles involving gossip and communication and arguments over facts and truth. So I told him this: "truth appears in shades and we each see only part of the spectrum." His reply was, "not in science." But I argued, "even there; everywhere."
You see, I've learned that truth, like perfection, is more subjective than we'd like to believe. Perfection is fluid and this is clearly illustrated by defining a perfect day. What is perfect to you in one moment most likely will not be perfect to you in twenty years. Change is the constant in life.
It's similar with truth, although not in the exact way. Think about it in terms of a camera lens. What's one of the most popular ways to prove something is "true"? Pics or it didn't happen!!! But if I take a picture with my mediocre camera and you take a picture with your high def, super zoom camera the images might look very different. Is one less true than the other? I say no.
Our human minds are limited. Until we start understanding and owning that, we're going to waste a lot of time on a whole lot of nothing. We cannot usually comprehend the full story of a thing - take the universe, for example. We kinda sorta have a clue, but even that starts scratching at edges where all known laws break down. Does that make everything we've learned until now less true?
Of course not.
At least not if you understand that the whole truth, by definition, is a spectrum that we can never see in totality.
What do you think?