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October 20, 2014
To suppose that science can liberate humankind from ignorance requires considerable credulity.
We know how science has been used in the past—not only to alleviate the human lot, but equally to serve tyranny and oppression.The notion that things might be fundamentally different in the future is an act of faith—one as gratuitous as any of the claims of religion, if not more so. Consider Pascal. One of the founders of modern probability theory and the designer of the world’s first mass-transit system, he was far too intelligent to imagine that human reason could resolve perennial questions.An Appetite for Wonder Review: The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins | New Republic
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Logic–The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding--
Ambrose Bierce
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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
Quintus Horatius Flacc
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