“I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.” ThinkingTryingHumansHumanityAnswersOur LivesAccountsMake SenseScientific KnowledgeGreat Knowledge Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.” PeopleWantShouldBelievePersonsStatesMightAnswersUnitedOpinionUnited StatesAccountsInstitutionsFundamentalsSorryConfinement Book:TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF Source: TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF
“Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.” IfsKnowsMenWantGivingBelieveMayRealFactsHelpingMightUniverseNaturalAnswersChristianityHonestAccountsClaimsMedicineBeing TrueHelpfulHonest ManUntruePatents Author:C. S. Lewis
“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.” IfsMayHas BeensAnswersCenturyIgnoranceProveAuthorityAccountsTwentiesRemainsMereFinalsAcceptedEsteemFollowersTestedSuccessorsTolerableApproximation Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley