“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.” IfsShouldFacesNaturalGonePaintPainterLandscapeFeaturesInsultLatterOccupationPortraitsPortraiturePresumptuous Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.” WorldGodScienceBeliefProcessGoalNaturalViewsActivityFoundationStartingFormerLatterCrownsStarting PointBelief In GodWorld ViewNatural ScienceEdificeThought Process Book:Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers
“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.” ThinkingMenTryingDoeHardPlayCoursesForceNaturalActivityCapableMachinesIntenseLatterComparisonExertion Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'” BelieveUniverseNaturalAcceptingCreativitySixCreatorWorthyAweLatterPropositionsStunningReinventionBiosphere Author:Stuart Kauffman
“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.” IfsMenGivingReasonWould BeChristianNaturalChristianityCasesAtheismOffersEnlightenmentDifficultyInfinitePositive AtheismFormerLatterMultitudesObscurityClarifying Author:Denis Diderot
“Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.” IfsMindMayPersonsLyingNaturalPoorRichPrideProudBraveryFortuneDefenseTemptationFormerOccasionsArroganceInsultLatterDepressingForgivenDishonestyCensure Author:Samuel Richardson
“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.” MenWorldI CanWholeUniverseForceCausesTermNaturalViewsDoubtConsciousArgumentRelationBlindProductionsExcuseIntellectOperationsIntimateCrushLatterInterventionProgressionAnalogiesNo Excuses Author:Thomas Huxley