Well said

"Great books of science, like all great books, are worth reading not for what they add to objective knowledge; they are worth reading because they advance our liberal education. Just as we don't read Dante for a sneak peek at the afterlife or because we expect someday to be confronted with a diabolical architecture of circles within circles and punishment suited to our sins, we don't read Darwin because what he says is what scientists now believe - much of it isn't. We read him because a book of eloquent argument and well-ordered evidence, assembled with such modest yet personal passion, reminds us of the powers of the human mind to bring light to darkness, make a clearing in the wood of confusion." - Adam Gopnik: Angels and Ages, A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life