"Every science is a mutilated octopus.  If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.  To a believer, the effect of the contemplation of a science is of being in the presence of the good, the true, and the beautiful.  But what he is awed by is Mutilation.  To our crippled intellects, only the maimed is what what we call understandable, because the unclipped ramifies away into all other things."
—Charles Fort (Wild Talents), on every science's propensity to dismiss anything that doesn't fit its dogma