Quote of the Day (12/15/08)

The storytelling side of science is not just peripheral, and not just pedagogy, but the very point of it all. Science properly done is one of the humanities, as a fine physics teacher once said. The point of science is to help us to understand what we are and how we got here, and for this we need the great stories: the tale of how, once upon a time, there was a Big Bang, the Darwinian epic of the evolution of life on Earth and now the story we are just beginning to learn to tell: the amazing adventure of the primate autobiographers who finally taught themselves how to tell the story of the amazing adventure of the primate autobiographers.
--Daniel Dennett, The Mind's "I"