science-4

A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a bearded man gestures and tells a woman in an orange shirt, "You scientists just want to destroy mystery! But humans can't live without wonder!" Panel 2: the woman, deadpan, replies "Are you serious?" Panel 3: she launches into a rant: "Look at cosmology! 300 years ago the universe is perfect orbs dancing in harmony. Now we're an island of rare matter in an infinite spacetime glob... pulled together by unfathomable dark stuff and pushed apart by unfathomable dark energy! What the fuck do the words I'm saying even mean?!" Panels 4-5: the man counters, "Science is not a candle in the dark! It's a door to another dark room with a door to another dark--" and keeps recursively repeating it as the woman cuts in, "Okay! Okay!" Panel 6: she says, "Geez, I thought you were gonna talk about the magic of understanding," and he flatly replies, "Understanding occurs in arithmetic, geometry, and nothing else." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the bearded man peering over his glasses, adding, "And that only includes numbers up to 10!"