Religion Is Far From The Only Thing We Take on Faith

“[E]veryday life is based on ‘basic’ beliefs for which we have no good arguments. There are, for example, no more basic truths from which we can prove that the past is often a good guide to the future, that our memories are reliable, or that other people have a conscious inner life. Such beliefs simply – and quite properly – arise from our experience in the world.”

Fifth Time Around, Restoration Of Eakins Masterpiece Gets It Right

“The fifth such intervention, just completed, not only restored the masterpiece to something close to how it looked when it left the artist’s studio, it also proved that Weil’s aphorism isn’t absolute. History might have been compromised years ago, but to a large extent it has been revived in one of America’s greatest paintings.”