The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.