By Cláudio A. Franco, faculty member at the Católica Medical School, and Researcher at Católica Biomedical Research Center.

"We sail toward the unknown, tormented by timeless Adamastors.

On the National Day of Scientific Culture, we celebrate the creativity of the human mind that drives us to break boundaries and demystify the unknown.

Since the beginning, the unknown has both fascinated and frightened us, tormenting our thoughts. In this unease, the human mind searches for patterns and answers that help explain the world around us and the causes behind the events we witness. Primordially, human beings relied on myths that attempted to rationalize and soothe our individual and collective anxieties. But over the centuries, our intrinsic need to discover and understand sharpened, and with Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Isaac Newton, among many others, the scientific method—anchored in the formulation of hypotheses, experimentation, and interpretation—was consolidated, demonstrating its value as a driving force of development and knowledge through the articulation and implementation of theories that explain the visible and the invisible."

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