Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
“What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!”
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.