We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.
"Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "A Special Fondness for Beetles", pp. 386-387, 1995.
