Ales Rarus

It’s incredible how long science has succeeded in keeping men’s minds off their fundamental unhappiness and its own very limited power to remedy their fundamental unhappiness. One marvel follows another—electric light, phonograph, motor car, telephone, radio, airplane, television. It’s a curious list, and very pathetic. The soul of man is crying for hope of purpose or meaning; and the scientist says, ‘Here is a telephone’ or ‘Look, television!’—exactly as one tries to distract a baby crying for its mother by offering it sugar-sticks and making funny faces. — Frank Sheed