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Skriven 2005-05-17 00:55:40 av GREG PAKSI (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av PAUL ROGERS
Ärende: Re: Toto, let's leave Kansas
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I'll let better known souls speak instead of myself.

Wisdom begins in wonder.
      - Socrates

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
      - Albert Einstein

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were
truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the
universe.
      - Albert Einstein 

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
      - Thomas Henry Huxley 

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
      - Leszczynski Stanislaus

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime
to examine the laws of heat.
      - John Morley

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
      - William Penn

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed,
imagination, and poetry.
      - Edgar Allan Poe 

A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every
human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all
that he has to get knowledge.
      - Samuel Johnson

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better
for it.
      - Abraham Lincoln 

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but
ignorance.
      - Christopher Marlowe

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive
and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
      - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about
a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
      - Thomas Jefferson
                     
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to
speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in
religious opinions as much as is supposed.
      - Thomas Jefferson 

Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him!
      - Lady Burton
                                                                     
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection
of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the
forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the
preferences of the human heart.
      - Walter Lippmann

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty,
of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom
and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, of a rich country
inhabited by starving people. . . . Who indeed could afford to ignore
science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid. . . . The future
belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
      - Jawaharlal Nehru

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the
greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
      - Benjamin Disraeli

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives'
tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a
fish, a mental slave.
      - Theodore Dreiser

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence,
it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
      - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
      - George Santayana

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it
trains people as to how they shall think.
      - Arthur Schopenhauer 

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when
morality conquers them.
      - George Bernard Shaw

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
      - Benjamin Franklin 

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
      - Sigmund Freud 

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for
taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material
universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
      - George Gaylord Simpson

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not
have them better have religion.
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Commerce unites; religion divides.
      - Alice Tisdale Hobart

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition
to enslave a philosophy.
      - William Ralph Inge 

'Tain't a knowin' kind of cattle
Thet is ketched with mouldy corn.
      - James Russell Lowell

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which
human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
      - Susan Sontag 

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
      - Peter Ustinov

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who
need strength in numbers.
      - Jesse Ventura 

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
      - Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
      - Oscar Wilde

Only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself, shall thyself be
learned.
      - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
      - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a
source of civilized delight.
      - William Safire 

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
      - Nathaniel Parker Willis

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
      - William James 

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical
existence of a religious belief.
      - Adolph Hitler


On Mon, 16 May 2005 15:45:02 -0400, PAUL ROGERS wrote:

> Apparently the reactionary right-wing in Kansas isn't satisfied
> with it's argument to teach Genesis in public school.  Now they
> want to redefine what "Science" is, to legitimize "Creation
> Science".
> 
> Seems to me I recall a Supreme Court decision a couple decades
> ago when this was tried, that said "Science is what scientists
> do, and if they don't recognize something as 'science' then you
> can't legislatively label it science and teach it in the
> classroom."  But then, judges can't define obscenity, only
> recognize it when they see it.
> 
> Can we do any better?  Can we define science, without temporizing
> as "that which we use the scientific method to study."
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