[Spirituality isn't something that is typically found among Terran scientists of the twenty-third century. There is no way to prove that spirits exist. They can't be quantified and, more importantly, they are unnecessary. Natural phenomena can be explained without resorting to supernatural explanations.
That doesn't mean that the universe is dead. Maybe it isn't animated with spirits, but there's an elegance to a world explained by facts and numbers. Science tells a story about death and rebirth and interconnectedness and stardust; mathematics is the language of nature itself, and there's a deep and abiding beauty in that language. The Fibonacci sequence can be found in the spiral of a pine cone. The Mandelbrot set can capture the delicate crystalline structure of a snowflake or the glint of a diamond.
There's a stunning symmetry to all of existence that can only be captured in numbers, but Chekov isn't nearly eloquent enough to explain any of this to Korra.]
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[Spirituality isn't something that is typically found among Terran scientists of the twenty-third century. There is no way to prove that spirits exist. They can't be quantified and, more importantly, they are unnecessary. Natural phenomena can be explained without resorting to supernatural explanations.
That doesn't mean that the universe is dead. Maybe it isn't animated with spirits, but there's an elegance to a world explained by facts and numbers. Science tells a story about death and rebirth and interconnectedness and stardust; mathematics is the language of nature itself, and there's a deep and abiding beauty in that language. The Fibonacci sequence can be found in the spiral of a pine cone. The Mandelbrot set can capture the delicate crystalline structure of a snowflake or the glint of a diamond.
There's a stunning symmetry to all of existence that can only be captured in numbers, but Chekov isn't nearly eloquent enough to explain any of this to Korra.]
But it is very beautiful in its way.