In my naivete, I’m always amazed when those who disparage “goyishe” knowledge, including gedolei Torah, flock in droves to the offices of “goyishe” medical specialists when struck, rachmono litzlan, by some terrible disease, in the hope of some miracle cure for what ails them. Suddenly, “goyishe” science earns a teudah of kashrus, mehadrin min hamehadrin. Science and knowledge are neither Jewish nor “goyish.” They just are.