Science takes us to the limit of what we can know about objects: beyond science there is nothing. But this nothing is postulated by science. For how can science be aware of itself except from a standpoint of what is beyond it? Facing this nothing we experience dread: but we also experience rapture, because it is what gives us a sense of our own freedom from the tyranny of things. It also gives us the possibility of being in a knowing relation to things. Without this nothing, we would ourselves be just things.
— Nicholas Mosley, “Hopeful Monsters”
