"True Love"

Interesting page on the NYTimes.com site. A reporter interviewed a number of scientific persons regarding decidedly non-scientific topics via the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" and came up with some fascinating replies. The last one in particular was quite noteworthy. Click the "Read more..." link for it.From http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/science/04edgehed.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all:

David Buss

Psychologist, University of Texas; author, "The Evolution of Desire"

True love.

I've spent two decades of my professional life studying human mating. In that time, I've documented phenomena ranging from what men and women desire in a mate to the most diabolical forms of sexual treachery. I've discovered the astonishingly creative ways in which men and women deceive and manipulate each other. I've studied mate poachers, obsessed stalkers, sexual predators and spouse murderers. But throughout this exploration of the dark dimensions of human mating, I've remained unwavering in my belief in true love.

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the ideational obsession, the sexual afterglow, profound self-sacrifice and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, has no barriers or boundaries. It's difficult to define, eludes modern measurement and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can't prove it.

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