81) To say science is better than mythology is rather like saying electricity is better than wood. Electricity and wood serve different purposes. However, nowadays we have both wooden chairs and electric chairs.
82) To demand a criteria for deciding what, in traditional literature, should be taken symbolically and what should not be taken symbolically is like demanding precision in deciding whether someone is sixty-five percent happy or ninety-two percent happy. There are certain areas of our lives where a demand for criteria or a demand for precision are impossible and not even desirable.
83) Stone is primary school; water is secondary school and college; and wine is graduation.
84) Nearly all of us spend a large proportion of our lives dreaming that we are awake, including those we call experts and great scientists; perhaps especially the experts and great scientists.
