When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.