Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality.

It angers you to some extent. You just say, 'Why?'

This way I can still buy groceries,

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars