The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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