Percy on Science, Scientism, and the Nature of the Person

From "From Facts to Fiction" (1966):

If the first great discovery of my life was the beauty of the scientific method, surely the second was the discovery of the singular predicament of man in the very world which has been transformed by this science.  An extraordinary paradox became clear:  that the more science progressed, and even as it benefited man, the less it said about what it was like to be a man living in the world. . . .  After twelve years of scientific education, I felt somewhat like the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard when he finished reading Hegel.  Hegel, said Kierkegaard, explained everything under the sun, except one small detail:  what it means to be a man living in the world who must die.