Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303004)

In science there is real knowledge, and knowledge brings spiritual comfort; they do not necessarily coincide. In the Sciences of man the distinction between these two types is almost impossible. We don't know anything so badly as ourselves, not because of trying to learn, and know for certain that it has shaped the person we exclude in advance the possibility of combining the deepest need with the most ridiculous accidents?