The scientific method was a project begun as an attempt to understand nature’s splendour, but finished in total defilement. We started with trying to understand the mechanics of the heavens. We concluded with pleasure cruises and little plastic drinking straws. What had gone wrong? How had we learned to unhear the cosmic music? It was all fact without wonder. “So too I realised what had so bored me about religion. It claimed to be in the employ of truth, yet every time it was confronted with a truth it couldn’t swallow, it only stuck its fingers in its ears and sang until the problem vanished.
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