Ambiguity, Science and Myth

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.” - Philip K. Dyck

"The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence."

- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, 1948, p. 129

“A postmodern science should not separate matter and consciousness and therefore not separate facts, meaning, and value. Science would then be inseparable from a kind of intrinsic morality, and truth and virtue would not be kept apart as they currently are in science. This separation is part of the reason we are in our current desperate situation.”

- Davis Bohm, Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World, 1988

"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance."

- Rollo May, 1991, The Cry for Myth, 1991, p. 15