" My own faith, my scientific faith, is that there is nothing that the scientific method cannot illuminate and elucidate. Its revelations and insights add immeasurably to the pleasure of being alive. My faith respects the powerful ability of the collective human intelligence, which initially groped for understanding through myth but now gives us the capacity to comprehend and, optimistically, given time and given cooperation between brains, will do so without limit. The scientific method is a distillation of common sense in alliance with honesty, and its discoveries illuminate the world. Unlike myth-making, which is entertainment in alliance with the desperation of sought but thwarted understanding, that illumination is the sound and firm foundation for the joy of true comprehension. "

― Peter Atkins , On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence