Before modern science, the world was unfathomable and inexplicable, but science has shown that nature is logical and comprehensible.
Evidence
Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved (Nautilus)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; Humans, like every other animal, are not smart enough to understand all of nature’s laws, and unknowable unknowns may vastly exceed what we can ever know. — Mysterianism; Under modernity no knowledge is certain, in any science. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 102
Related
- Humans, like every other animal, are not smart enough to understand all of nature’s laws, and unknowable unknowns may vastly exceed what we can ever know. (similarity 0.85)
- Claiming we may never fully understand phenomena differs from claiming they can never be explained physically, and the explanatory gap is narrowing daily. (similarity 0.78)