Leituras pela manhã

If we think a phenomenon is beyond man, we immediately say it’s God’s work; our vanity will accept nothing less, but couldn’t we be a bit less vain and a bit more philosophical in what we say? If nature presents us with a problem that is difficult to unravel, let’s leave it as it is and not try to undo it with the help of a being who then offers us a new problem, more insoluble than the first.

Diderot, citado por James Wood em, The Scholar Starting Brawls with the Enlightenment - Has the cult of rationality blinded us to the power of transcendence?