Let us wage war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable, let us activate the different and save the honor of the name. - Jean-François Lyotard

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

Matter asks no questions, expects no answers of us. It ignores us. It made us the way it makes all bodies—by chance and according to its laws.

The body might be considered the hardware of the complex technical device that is human thought.