Amherst Supplement Essay. Please help !

"Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments."
Kannan Jagannathan, Professor ofPhysics, Amherst College

A full comprehension of the nature of the world can be obtained through rigorous reasoning.

I am a big fan of scientific method. The process of developing a theory and then substantiating it with facts is indeed a rewarding one. I tried once to explain why I felt particularly excited in some days by recording the activities that I have done in those days but when I found no pattern, I was about to accept the idea that people are not bound by science. However, later I found that it was made explicable by an unaccounted for a variant which was the rainy weather in all those days making me happy. And it dawned on me that if I was not be able to explain anything, it does not necessarily means that the intuition and insight are the only correct answer.

To the points raised by Professor Jagannathan, mathematics are indisputably dictated by rigor. However, I would want to question the remaining point because empirical evidence is not always fail-proof because we can unconsciously search for the result that we want, not the one we need, or miss out a crucial variant. For example, a teacher teaches students about gravity by dropping a penny but instead of falling, it floats in the air, and all students take that as empirical evidence of gravity without knowing that there are powerful magnets in adjacent room. All we need to be able know the nature of all things is to have enough information and the capacity to process it. Though insight and intuition are important, rigorous reasoning is the most precise virtue.

I want my acquisition of knowledge to be truthful and fulfilling. I desire an education where I can choose to develop both insight and reasoning capacity. Therefore, I choose Amherst College.