Swimming above the waters

Abstract

I always remember a notice from a school in the city where I live, it said "for children the world is always new ... for us too". That short and shocking phrase I always keep in mind, it is possible that it is because of the number of times I see it when I traveled that road, or maybe, for the simple and simple reason that it has two great lessons, absolutely and radically philosophical: The first is that the very nature of knowledge, what makes it precisely knowledge is change. The philosophy of change proposed by Heraclitus is an invitation to face the static and the immovable. The scientific thought derived from this philosophical attitude is therefore an invitation to think to change and radiate our environment