"A supernatural world thus exist again for humans. Thought physicists' calculations and experiments demonstrate its reality, these experiments take on meaning only when transcribed in mathematical language. In a layperson's eyes (that is, to almost the whole of humankind), this supernatural world offers the same properties as that of myths: everything in it happens differently than it would in the ordinary world, and more often upside down. For the man in the street, for all of us, this world remains out of reach, except through the means of ancient modes of thinking that the scientist consents to restore for our use (and sometimes, regrettably, for his own). In the least expected manner, the dialogue with science makes mythological thinking actual again."
Claude Lévi-Strauss - The Story of Lynx
