What an imperceptive lot we are. Surrounded by so much, so fascinating and so real, that we do not see (hear, smell touch, taste) in nature, yet so gullible and so seduced by claims for novel power that we mistake the tricks of mediocre magicians for glimpses of a psychic world beyond our ken. The paranormal may be a fantasy; it is certainly a haven for charlatans. But ‘parahuman’ powers of perception lie all about us in birds, bees, and bacteria. And we can use the instruments of science to sense and understand what we cannot directly perceive.
~ Stephen Jay Gould in The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1980)
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Posted: April 25th, 2008, 5:25pm MDT by Husky
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