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As a result of scientific man's creativity there arises an ordered, illumined, determined world, imprinted with the stamp of creative intellect, of pure reason and clear cognition. From the midst of the order and lawfulness we hear a new song, the song of the creature to the Creator, the song of the cosmos to its Maker.

— Joseph B. Soloveitchik Halakhic Man (1983)

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Not only the qualitative world bursts forth in song, but so does the quantitative.

Halakhic Man (1983)

Newtonian physics found its apostle in Kant; modern physics is still awaiting its modern expounder.

Great philosophical systems are never produced in a scientific vacuum but usually follow the formation and completion of a scientific world-perspective.

There is a distinct reluctance, almost an unwillingness, on the part of Torah to grant man the privilege to consume meat. Man as an animal-eater is looked at askance by the Torah. There are definitive vegetarian tendencies in the Bible.

The Emergence of Ethical Man, p. 31 (2005)

Man of old who could not fight disease and succumbed in multitudes to yellow fever or any other plague could not lay claim to dignity. Only the man who builds hospitals, discovers therapeutic techniques, and saves lives is blessed with dignity.

The Lonely Man of Faith, p. 16 (1965)

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