Just the opposite: we tame things by understanding them.

…nstrument of what are likely only primitive, territorial mammals in the array of potential species. We prefer to understand things by taming them, quantifying them, reducing them to their causes, and showing, in effect, how they can be exploited…
The Secular Humanist’s Ontology
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Benjamin Cain
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Feb 20, 2025
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Just the opposite: we tame things by understanding them.
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We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.
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