November 21, 2003

Man's Place in the Universe; the Alchemy of Dissonance

Science is often considered to be arrogant in abrogating to itself, in the eyes of some (my own included), the claim to be the sole route to true, complete, and perfect knowledge. Yet, some of its greatest achievements are extraordinarily humbling. Nowhere is its achievement so majestic and this abject humbling appropriately so complete as in its role in putting Man in his place in the world. The arrogance of majestic achievement is in science's ability to apply itself to the greatest