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We have genuflected before the God of Science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Science embraces facts and debates opinion; religion embraces opinion and debates the facts.
Mathematics became an experimental subject. Individuals could follow previously intractable problems by simply watching what happened when they were programmed into a personal computer.
John D. Barrow Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying "Halt!"
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
We are indeed a blind race, and the next generation, blind to its own blindness, will be amazed at ours.
A scientific argument must have some degree of data, some…some sniff of theoretical basis behind it; otherwise it’s not a scientific argument, it’s a philosophical debate.
But if we fail, then the whole world...will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
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