Everybody longs to take the tiniest bit of information—a bone shard or the small spot of blood—and discover the whole story behind it. We want to be seen as knowledgeable.

Michael Gerson’s April 25 op-ed column, “Science for the faithful,” was mostly a reasoned and thoughtful summary of the danger of not accepting science as the only real tool for the ...

"Information is the notes," declares mental-health worker Amy Severinghaus, "But knowledge is the music." You need information to have knowledge, but without knowledge, information lies lifeless.