“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” FactsSpiritualScienceDeathDesireReligionFallPsychologyAtheismDyingStrengthIllusionAtheistAgnosticPsychiatryAtheisticReligion In Society Book:Major Works Source: Major Works
“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.” HumansTodayScienceDesireStrongRacePsychologySubjectsComfortableRegardMythPhysicsHuman RaceCustomsInsignificant Book:The decline and fall of science Source: The decline and fall of science
“Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.” KnowsScienceDesireTasteCostBlind Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks