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And yet, in all of his efforts to understand the Mirror, his great mystery, his attempts to prove logic had failed again and again.
“And yet, in all of his efforts to understand the Mirror, his great mystery, his attempts to prove logic had failed again and again.”
— Molly Collier · Science
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“And yet, in all of his efforts to understand the Mirror, his great mystery, his attempts to prove logic had failed again and again.”
“Though he was still young, the burden of succession weighed heavy on his shoulders—the lonely existence of a brilliant mind among the foolish.”
“Have faith even in the finite, my dear. Faith and science are but the hands and feet of miracles.”
“His faith pulsed around him, tangible and wavering like one small flame in a gale of wind.”
“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence.”
“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious.”
“Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.There was more knowledge in the world before that period, than for many centuries afterwards; and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology to which it succeeded, was a corruption of an ancient system of theism.”