Eight Arms and the Mask

What is "science"?  When I was young, and still could only read the eastern letters(1), I encountered this word in a codex and I went to ask the teachers what it meant. I said it incorrectly, I feel certain, but the teacher I spoke to only pronounced it correctly, and went on to say this- "Science" is "knowledge", xe said. Science is that which we know, that which is certain and holds true. Science is light, and it has a counterpart, ignorance, which is darkness. We know what we can see, what light shows to us, but whenever light falls upon a thing, there is also a shadow created, and when the shadow is deep enough, we cannot see what is within it. So to know something means to be ignorant of other things.  I think I asked, "Is it possible to know everything?" Xer answer was simple. "How could you know if you had?"  Years later, I learned that what I had thought was the great difficulty there- the fact that some facts would block the vi...