Mystery

“You know, bees have been around for hundreds of million of years, at least, as living creatures,” Clayton said. “And when you work a hive, and you’re there with that hive alone, and you hear how contented the bees are, you just have the sense that they have the pulse of the universe encoded in their genes. And I really feel that the concept of wisdom is like that, too. Somehow, like the bees, we are programmed to understand when someone has been wise. But what wisdom is, and how one learns to be wise, is still somewhat of a mystery.”
Neuropsychologist Vivian Clayton
Quoted in Stephen S. Hall's article
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
The New York Times Magazine
May 6, 2007

Photo taken at a water playground
on the banks of the Danube river
on Monday, May 7.