"Yet all the knowledge on Earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. You describe it to me and you teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit that they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases. At the final stage you teach me that this wonderous and multicolored universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know. Have I the time to be indignant? You have already changed theories. So that science that was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis all the same, that lucidity founders in metaphor, that uncertainty is resolved in a work of art."

- Albert Camus
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