If men really turned out to be piano-keys, and if it was proved to them by science and mathematics, even then they would not see reason, but on the contrary would deliberately do something out of sheer ingratitude in order, in fact, to have their own way. And if they had not the means to do this, they would connive to create destruction and chaos, invent various sufferings, and so still have their own way! . . . If you say that all this, the chaos and darkness and cursing, could also be reduced to tables, so that the mere possibility of taking it to into account beforehand would put a stop to it, and reason would still hold sway – in that case men would deliberately go mad, so as not to possess reason, and thus still get their own way! Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, p. 38