Richard Dawkins Quote
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is fragile.
One is reluctant to help affect yet another return to the “poetry of science,” which doesn’t seem to draw the distinction between science and myth strongly enough. I recently saw a bit online with Christopher Hitchins speaking in the same vein about the great beauty of the world that can be perceived through science. Really the material world is terrifying and indifferent, and the rationalist aesthete soft-pedals these aspects at his own peril. It’s not the job of science to comfort or obscure.
TOG
so true