Everything is interesting, somehow

The rationalistic world of science treats natural “laws” as if there is some reason why things should have to be that way. They pretend to know why one thing leads to another, when in reality they merely observe that it does so.

Fairy tales, on the other hand, preserve the wonder of the world through magic. The witch says, “Blow the horn, and the ogre’s castle will fall.” She does not know why, but she has seen many castles go down in this way. Hers is not a mysterious view of life. It is cold, rational agnosticism. The scientist is the one who purports to know the magic formula for reality.

“Compared to them [fairy tales] religion and rationalism are both abnormal, though religion is abnormally right and rationalism abnormally wrong.”