The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. "If there is still a feeling of hostility between... them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea,--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody,--I AM!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on st...ep on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom,... power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to enquire--in the midst of myriads of the living & the dead worlds, s...tars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interf...erence. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.... But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastroph...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »