We can only know the world through the senses that evolution has passed down to us; that reality is therefore forever opaque to us.
Science today is our safest path to knowledge, and wedded to technology it continues to amaze. And yet, too frequently control is confused with understanding, by scientists and the rest of us. Too often what is natural is taken for what is right, complexity simplified into grotesque caricatures, and modesty thrown to the side.
