"My whole life has been based on the premise that these two can
comfortably co-exist!"
And you still believe it, you rascally tweaker of academic types, as
I do. What drives intellectuals (and the intellectual sides, however
small and underdeveloped, of people like us) crazy is that they (we)
can't explain HOW this co-existence works, but it can and does, and
not to the detriment of either.
S. Finley