If scientists really looked at the glory and the scum of the world
(that's us), they'd find that we're as paradoxical and as impossible as
our particles. Instead they reduce our whole to one of its elements,
and ignore the rest. They tell us we're a mobile home in which our genes cruise from one generation
to the next, or we're just a product of our culture or something else.
“We take a partial truth and make it total. Why? Because like children afraid of the dark, we cannot abide to stand within mystery and so must have a truth that is total.”*
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Self-portrait by Van Gogh done in 1887.
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from "The Illusion of Technique" by William Barrett, p. 166