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George Wald (1906-) |
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. |
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science |
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. |
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions |
Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt |
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Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops. |