Humanity has been looking out into space for thousands of years, and the most important thing we've discovered over that time is that everything is crazy weird out there.
Can science and mathematics quantify something as mysterious as the beauty of music, or the evil of the human spirit, or the madness of a panicked mob? Yeah, pretty much.
You might be surprised to find out that some of that motherly health advice that sounds suspiciously like superstitious nonsense now wasn't so made up after all.