The locus of every human mystery is
perception of this world. From it
proceeds every thought, every art. I
like Calvin's metaphor
— nature is a shining garment in which God is revealed
and concealed.
In fact there is no moment in which, no
perspective from which, science as science can regard human life and say that
there is a beautiful, terrible mystery in it all, a great pathos. Art, music,
and religion tell us that. And what they
tell us is true, not after the fashion of a magisterium that is legitimate only
so long a it does not overlap the autonomous republic of science. It is true because it takes account of the
universal variable, human nature, which shapes everything it touches, science
as surely and profoundly as anything else.
-- Marilynne
Robinson,
When I Was a Child I Read Books
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