"Modern science, Richard claims, is the model of true knowledge, but emotionally it leaves something to be desired. It will not satisfy the mass of the people's demands to the answers of the questions 'what?' and 'why?', contenting itself instead with answering the question 'how?'."
I couldn't agree with this more. Science may tell us what we need to know, but it leaves out what the majority of us crave- a story. This is what I believe literature does. It is there to create the story, whether it be true or false, that people want to hear, about any given subject. From that point on, we can decide what we want to believe, and even incorporate the facts given to us from science if we like. Literature is able to stir the emotions within someone by giving us something to relate to. I know that reading about something scientifically complicated makes me feel incredibly distant from that subject. I want to read something that excites me, something that makes me feel and wonder, because I could envision myself in the situation of a character within a story. In literature, you don't always have to know how something is done. Receiving answers to the more important questions (in my mind anyway), the 'whats' and 'whys,' is much more fulfilling.
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