“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.” TodayReligionHumanityCultureRaceAchievementEnlightenmentReasonableDividesThinkerJustifiedIlliterateChasmsEnlightenment Thinkers Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.” PastCultureFictionHeardGeniusScience FictionCommentJustifiedVoyagesPlungeLeonardo Author:Lucio Russo
“I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.” HumansMayLittlesCultureGivenNumbersAtheismTheoryReaderLimitsOriginalsIntentionPositive AtheismCriticizeModestJustifiedPositivelyMemes Book:A Devil's Chaplain Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.” PeoplePhilosophyCultureHealthyPhilosophicalGreekEngagedJustified Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks