Ignorance! Intrepid schooner, parting the waves of Knowledge with your stately prow! The fools who wonder 'what?' and 'why?' and 'how?' can build no craft to outstrip you, starting too far behind, too encumbered, carting Theory and Method -- those great loads weigh down their better-designed keel. What great renown you gain, leaving all the wise men smarting. But if they did outrace you -- still, what good? The more they know, the less they understand. Their engines soil the Earth; their empty grand designs are each perverted to spill blood. What triumph, then, commands our reliance on this thin, vain, vacant dogma, Science?
Copyright 1993 Edward Gaillard. All rights reserved.