To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.