chapters 8 and 9

I very much liked the discussion at the end of the Daston book, it's a sort of expected ending like a "what killed the dinosaurs?" that comes at the end of each dinosaur book. But there's a few things that I seem to see as coming back around in regard to order and wonders that seem to make the idea of wonder a bit more cyclical to me. We've already discussed a little bit about the snobbery and the disgust that was looked at onto the people who did have a sense of wonder. But one thing that's continually being destroyed in nature, for example, is order. Once we found the rotation of the planets didn't follow a perfectly circular orbit, and indeed followed lop-sided loops, people were outraged that anyone would say that there wasn't perfection in the heavens. Indeed, there wasn't even close to that. New descoveries of quantum physics showed that at a micro level, the universe is completely random, and only things at a macro level can be even close to predictable. People lose half of their brain, and somehow relearn how to walk, talk eat and participate in society like nothing has changed.
If it felt at the end of this book that the wonders of life were killed and sacrificed on the alter of science, I think it's science that can help bring it back. I guess the question that arises out of these chapters now is that one glaring one: How do we tie this discussion about wonders of the world to truth, understanding and who we are as human beings? How does our own psyche and mind play into this discussion?