That was a great read! This bit struck me: "Both spent their lives measuring the stress in stone. Both used scientific methods to answer questions that had see

That was a great read! This bit struck me: "Both spent their lives measuring the stress in stone. Both used scientific methods to answer questions that had seemed to everyone else beyond the reach of science." Nothing, I repeat NOTHING is beyond the reach of science! Go and investigate something that no-one investigated before, and you will find something that no-one found before. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. Now whether [what you find] is worth the trouble of investigating (or: where one's efforts are best spent), that is another matter.