[throwanem]

They're poor, early tools. But a complex world can be addressed as if only so simple. Or safely, anyway.

It's not that I don't understand the temptation otherwise. But those are sent to be mastered, I heard.

[wizzwizz4]

Science is not obscurantism. Of their purpose, these tools are early (we hope). Of their ilk, these tools are late, almost unsurpassable, and unenviable.