Besides giving three important points on Covid-19, she said: ‘We know that besides our fallibility from threats like infectious disease, nothing else is certain. But uncertainty is a familiar friend in science and the quest for truth. And as the great physicist Richard Feynman said, “What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.” Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. There is inevitably pain in uncertainty, and it is unsettling. But instead of suffering, we can choose to view uncertainty with hope. For as long as we acknowledge that we do not know for certain, we can try and find out. That is the scientific truth.’
Read here (The Star, April 12, 2020)
