"Looking back, we grew up poor, but living it then we never knew," says McKelvey's commune "sister" Chia O'Keefe, an early WeWork's employee and now head of innovation.
"When we look at the black holes in the centers of other galaxies, we see them get bright and then fade, but we never know what is actually happening," Eliot Quataert, a theoretical astrophysicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement.
If we never know, then we're never going to be able to build on anything".
He then added, "We never knew history was looking over our shoulder".
This quiet, modest, brilliant man accomplished it all with a pencil, a pad of paper and a slide rule — no calculators or computers then — and we never knew about it until after his death.
But then, we never really know, do we?
"Usually with Black culture we embrace something for seven years and then it's like we never knew it.
"Then we'll never know, will we," Justice Souter said with some asperity.
One analyst once said to me: "If we are never bored, then we will never know ourselves".
Like magical hacks, they wave spirit fingers with one hand to distract from real problems and then sell educators solutions for problems we never knew we really had.
