Faith Versus Reason: "There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn." Augustine, as cited in the new important book: Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (NY: Knopf, 2003).