When Breath Becomes Air

Yet no one precisely knew where the truth lay amid the whirling sand; for every country fact that seemed preposterous, there was one that felt solid and true. Suddenly the peritoneum, and the gaping hole in it, was clear. His hypothalamus had, in fact, been slightly damaged during the operation to remove his tumor; the adorable eight-year-old was now a twelve-year-old monster. Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth.