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JMNR reminds us that the sciences need the humanities:
Knowing what a thing is made of, after all, does not tell us what it is.
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Literature, the fine arts, theater, and music teach humans what it is to be good, true, and beautiful. They point to meaning. What does it profit a man to learn all mysteries of matter and energy if he does not have love? Science can only simulate or stimulate the feelings of love, but . . . cannot create one real passion.
That first sentence, as Reynolds very well knows, is a paraphrase from a conversation in C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
“In our world,” said Eustace, “A star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
“Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of….”
How I hope that the makers of the movie don’t lose or obscure that particular bit of wisdom!