It has been said that science demystifies the world. It is closer to the truth to say that science, when it is at its best, opens the world up for us, bringing daily realities under a kind of magic spell and providing the means to see the limits of what we think we know, and the scope of what we do not at all understand.

Translated by Steven Sampson, The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life, Chapter One (p. 13)