Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.”
“Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.”