I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either. - Charles Fort

Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania — then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

One can't learn much and
also be comfortable
One can't learn much and
let anybody else be comfortable

That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained.