Thursday, January 6, 2011

Using a Hammer to Do the Work of a Saw

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

— Henry David Thoreau

Scientific methodology is a marvelous tool that enables us to discover many marvelous, beautiful, useful things that help to prolong and enrich our temporal existence and experience. That said, doesn't it seem a bit silly to use this tool to the exclusion of all others? Is it sensible to expect a hammer to do the work of a saw?

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