“Neither need we fear to diminish a miracle by explaining it.”
“Science cannot explain miracles. Neither do miracles explain science.”
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.”
“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”