Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation,

Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation,
and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always
they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than
they thought.

-- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
"We Must Dissent"

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