An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith. - Gene Wolfe

Every theory is true in some discipline. The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.

They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors.

You have a walking stick. Suppose it could walk by itself, and that it chose to walk away from you. [...] It would no longer be a walking stick at all, only a stick that walked.