Science & Tech Quote by Thomas Dekker

Dekker is writing from a London where the new learning is getting loud: Baconian method in the air, telescopes and navigational math quietly redrawing the map, the stage itself becoming a kind of public laboratory for human motive. His line doesn’t reject “science and sciences” so much as puncture the era’s growing swagger about them. The doubling is pointed: not just one discipline, but the whole pile of them, the catalog of explanations. Even after all that, he insists, the world refuses to be reduced.

The sentence turns on “still.” It’s a small word with a skeptical edge, implying that knowledge was supposed to disenchant things, to sand down wonder into mechanism. Dekker flips that expectation: understanding doesn’t cancel mystery; it can sharpen it. “Miracle” here isn’t strictly theological proof. It’s a rhetorical crowbar, prying the reader out of complacency. “Inscrutable” and “magical” aren’t anti-intellectual; they’re anti-arrogance, a reminder that explanation has limits and that those limits are not failures but features of being alive in a reality larger than our categories.

The subtext is also moral and aesthetic. “To whosoever will think of it” makes wonder an act of attention, not a property that automatically radiates from the world. Dekker, a dramatist, knows how easily audiences drift into the dull trance of the familiar. The line is a stage-direction for the mind: look harder. The miracle is there, but only if you consent to notice it.