" Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great … He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. "

― Michael Shermer , Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time