Just like geomaterials, life comes with its own uncertainties, but if you are strategic enough with the information you get, Maybe, just maybe, you can reduce life's uncertainties.
Academic job offers aren't always given to the most qualified candidate. They are given to the candidate who shows that they are the most qualified candidate.
Novel discoveries are always in abundance: Job 28:7 KJV There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen.
Everybody answers to Somebody.
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” ― Horace Mann.