A Couple of Quotes

When Nature, so to speak, attempts to do things to rational thoughts, she only succeeds in killing them.  That is the peculiar state of affairs at the frontier.  Nature can only raid Reason to kill, but Reason can invade Nature to take prisoners and even to colonise.  Every object you see before you at this moment -- the walls, ceiling, furniture, the books, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonisation of Nature by Reason:  for none of this matter would have been in these states if Nature had had her way. -- C.S. Lewis from Miracles, chapter 4, "Nature and Supernature"


There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.  -- Lord Peter Wimsey, from Dorothy L. Sayers' Whose Body?