Author Archive: Grainne Murphy

How Do You Know? On Dubious Faith And Intermittent Certainty In Writing

We eat with our eyes, the saying goes, but our eyes are unreliable gauges of appetite and we often order more than we want. We believe in science, we say, but I read somewhere recently that it is impossible to ‘believe’ in science, which is itself fact and thus requires no articles of faith. Actually. […]