“To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.” HumansRealReasonLightTruthAbleReligionLosesNaturalDarkClearProgressFeetMankindEffectsEventsBehaviorHarmToleranceDoctrineRepresentativesRefugeInterfereScience And ReligionDomainUnworthyPhilosophy Of ReligionHuman ProgressRegularityScience ReligionScientific KnowledgeGod And Science Author:Albert Einstein
“Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.” MindMatterEarthGoneProgressAchieveArmsCivilizationLaborFallenBeastEmpiresWildernessMarchConquestDomainMonumentTruestCoarseWild Beasts Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.” KindMayProgressJudgingDegreesPerfectionMathematicsCentreDomainFacilityCalculationsPhysical Science Author:Adolphe Quetelet
“Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsAblePoliticalProcessWealthDemocracyRightsProgressExampleVoteSlaveFormerDimensionsAfghanistanDomainFlawed1960s Author:Noam Chomsky
“Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.” LittlesRealBigsGrowsUnderstandingProgressFieldsStructurePhysicsDevelopingChemistryDomainMolecules Author:Noam Chomsky
“The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.” MindHumansChildrenLanguageProgressGeniusPropertyComplexesEnormousBlockAcquireBarriersHuman MindDomainScopeAcquisitionHuman Language Author:Noam Chomsky
“If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some domains where real scientific progress is possible, then there are others where it is not.” IfsShouldHumansRealProgressOrganismsDomainScientific Progress Author:Noam Chomsky