The fear that scientific analyses supposedly threaten the magic and poetry of beauty, art, and any other kind of superior intellectual activity is rather unfounded and unjustified.

The knowledge of the brain enhances our sense of beauty and the awe inspired by its astonishing achievements, allowing us to admire not only the works but also the organ that creates them.

The data from brain research sometimes surpasses in strangeness and beauty even the richest fiction. After all, most people have not ceased to admire the rainbow even though they understand the physical conditions for its existence, nor have they stopped admiring Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, even though they may know the colors used by the artist and other technical details about the work.

We have been talking for decades about the physiology of sex, which has not prevented us, and will not prevent us, from falling madly in love and feeling the magic of love and sexual acts.

Moreover, I cannot imagine that a woman would refuse a diamond as a gift if her beloved (who is both rich and romantic and knowledgeable) told her that the diamond is carbon forged deep within the Earth since the time our solar system was created.