At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and utty"". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality."