..where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. David Brin
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The analogy of the boundary in science is often taken literally, as if there were a line dividing science and nonscience. But that's not true. There's nothing like the boundary between science and nonscience.

Source: Kiln People

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