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Famous Quotes
"In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel."
More quotes about Science
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein on Science -
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science -
"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science -
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."
Albert Einstein on Science -
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science
More quotes by Jonathan Sacks
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"Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."
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"Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race."
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"Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."
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"Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity."
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"Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver."