Lulu Miller
What happens when the scientific categories we use to organize our world turn out to be false? The realization that fish do not exist offers a profound lesson in embracing chaos and uncertainty.
David Starr Jordan dedicated his life to organizing nature through taxonomy but ultimately used his rigid beliefs to promote forced sterilization.
Modern cladistics reveals that the category of fish is scientifically meaningless because it groups vastly different creatures together based on flawed intuition.
The human impulse to create order out of chaos can transform admirable perseverance into destructive arrogance if it lacks humility.